His musical training began as a choirboy at St. Thomas Choir School in New York City and continued with organ and carillon lessons in high school. He attended Tufts University where he studied composition with T. J. Anderson and completed a double major in Music and History. At the University of California, Berkeley, Trevor Weston completed his Ph. D. studying with Richard Felciano, Andrew Imbrie and his primary teacher, Olly Wilson. Trevor Weston's honors include the George Ladd Prix de Paris, which funded two years of study in Paris, and a reading by the Detroit Symphony in 1998 of his orchestral piece, Bleue.