Kevin Day, an Arlington-raised composer and Texas Christian University graduate, is getting commissions and having his works performed around the world. The...
Getting here hasn’t been easy.
At Life in Christ Family Church in Lancaster, he played piano and organ while his parents sang. His dad, a hip-hop and gospel producer, taught him how to mix beats on a software program called FruityLoops. In school, he played euphonium, and later tuba, in band, and piano in jazz band. “Each piece is a representation of a part of me,” Day said in a recent phone call from California, where he was completing a composer’s residency. “I’m constantly thinking about, OK, what haven’t I shown yet? What haven’t I said yet musically that I could say in these moments?”drew around 450,000 views on Facebook. “Kevin Day is trying to kill all euphonium players that attempt his concerto,” euphonium player Demondrae Thurman joked in his post about the difficult piece.
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