UDC music student showcases talent as a composer

Composer Ronald “Trey” Walton, a music student in the College of Arts and Sciences, will perform at a recital at 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 28, at Bethesda Presbyterian Church, 7611 Clarendon Road, Bethesda, MD. Walton was named the 2022-2023 Cantate Young Artist of Color. Cantate features and mentors a young BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) artist each season from one of the following categories: vocalists, composers and conductors.

On Sunday, October 29, Walton’s composition “Letters” will be featured alongside the works of four other composers as part of the Dream American Reading Session and Concert, hosted by the Pacific Chamber Orchestra and Symphonic Orchestra in Livermore, CA. 

Last week, on October 22, as part of their “I Too Sing America” concert, the Washington Master Chorale presented two pieces from Walton’s “Harlem Renaissance Choral Series,” setting the poems “I Too” by Langston Hughes and “No Images” by William Cuney to music at the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, DC.