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Treya Nash

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Treya Nash

Associated Faculty, Composition

nash.477@osu.edu

340 Timashev Building
1866 College Rd
Columbus, OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Composition
  • Web art
  • Audience participation

Education

  • PhD (Music Composition), Louisiana State University (2025)
  • MM (Music Composition), University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2020)
  • BA (Music Composition), University of Florida (2018)

Treya Nash is a composer and web artist whose main area of interest is audience participation in the concert hall space. A staple of her practice is the creation of web apps designed for audience performance with cellphones. These cellphone pieces have been widely performed, including at SEAMUS, the Web Audio Conference, the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble New Music Festival, the line upon line percussion Winter Composers Festival, and more. 

Her participatory approach extends into her acoustic music, which often invites audiences to play with physical objects such as marbles, rocks, paper, or toothbrushes. Her 40-minute “non-opera” D, Me, You, We features an actor, a generative chatbot, three musicians, and audience participation with cellphones and objects. 

Treya’s work prioritizes live performance, embracing the whimsical and playful possibilities of audience participation. She frequently incorporates her field recordings into her pieces, and has a particular fondness for frog sounds.

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