2025 Composer: Kevin Day

Kevin Day is an internationally acclaimed composer, conductor, and jazz pianist currently based near Toronto, Canada. His music has been performed by some of the world’s top instrumental soloists, wind bands, chamber ensembles, and symphony orchestras. Day has composed over 250 works, several concerti, and has had performances throughout the United States, Canada, Austria, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, Japan, and more. He is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship for Music Composition, a winner of the BMI Composer Award, a three-time ASCAP Morton Gould Finalist, a finalist for the ABA Sousa-Oswald Award, a finalist for the NBA Revelli Award, and was considered for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music. He holds degrees from TCU, the University of Georgia, and is ABD completing his Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Day is currently Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of Jazz at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. He is an alumnus of the Gamma Sigma chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity and the Delta Mu chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.