Meet the Artist
Westly Heflin is a Composer and Percussionist from Louisiana, where he received his bachelors degree in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He studied percussion with Larry Anderson and Joe W. Moore III, as well as composition with Mel Mobley during his undergraduate studies. Currently, he is pursuing a MM in Composition with Mark Engebretson and Alejandro Rutty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While working on his bachelor's, he served as a volunteer from 2018-2022 for the Northeast Louisiana regional New Music on the Bayou Festival, hosted by ULM and Louisiana Tech University.
Westly's compositions range from jazz and classical-style chamber pop, to electronic pop, heavily influenced by artists like Aphex Twin. His inspiration also stems from 20th-century compositions combined with his familiarity with the pop genre in modern music. As a composer, he finds that blending the broad differences between these two genres together opens up a large realm of possibilities when creating New Music. Westly's pieces have been performed by both colleagues as well as University faculty at both recitals and festivals.
