Dylan Tyree

Dylan Tyree is a Los Angeles-based composer, cellist, and arts administrator whose musical practice lives at the crossroads of tradition and rebellion.

As a multifaceted performer, Dylan is deeply committed to the art of collaboration and bringing new music to life. He has worked closely with composers including Eric Whitacre, Christopher Tin, Ola Gjeilo, Veronika Krausas, Samvel Krajian, Olivia Marckx, and Roger Holland. He appears as a soloist on Christopher Tin’s album Song Offerings. Equally at home in the realm of popular music, he has performed alongside Stevie Wonder, Chloe Ness, Nikki Rodriguez, Greg Phillinganes, Brad Mehldau, Chris Thile, Blake Mills, Mia Asano, Matt Chamberlain, and John Davis.

As a competition-winning composer, Dylan’s original music draws on improvisation and collaboration to develop curated musical experiences that play with perception, narrative, and space. He has written music for organizations/ensembles throughout the United States and Canada, including the Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, Sunset Chamber Festival, Soaring Arts Music Collective, University of Denver PinS Program, and the University of Southern California Thornton String Chamber Music Program; individuals include world-renowned soloists Martin Kuuskmann and Matthew Zalkind, among others. Most recently, he was announced as a 2026 recipient of the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Dylan is a composition Teaching Artist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

Dylan is pursuing a double M.Mus. in Cello Performance and Composition at the University of Southern California under the tutelage of Seth Parker Woods for cello, and Donald Crockett and Ted Hearne for composition.