Thomas Rex Beverly, born in 1988, is native of Bellville, Texas. He is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas where he received a bachelor’s degree in music composition. Before arriving at Trinity University, Beverly did not have any formal music education, just an old guitar, a few little riffs and tunes, and a lot of lofty ideas. At Trinity, he chose to pursue music composition and has studied with Dr. Timothy Kramer, Dr. David Heuser, Jack W. Stamps, and Brian Nelson. His primary instrument is the organ and he has taken lessons with Dr. David Heller. Beverly studied abroad in fall 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic. There he studied composition with the Czech composer Michal Rataj and researched contemporary Czech music. Also, his piece “Melos I” for solo flute was recently selected to be performed at the 2008 Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI conference, hosted at Oklahoma City University. At this time, he has been accepted into the Trinity Masters of Arts in Teaching program for music education. After getting his masters in music education he plans to teach and continue composing.