Trey Anastasio
Trey Anastasio is the lead guitarist, principal vocalist, and primary songwriter of Phish, the improvisational rock band he co-founded in 1983 while a student at the University of Vermont. Beyond Phish he has built a parallel career as a solo bandleader and orchestral composer.
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- Born September 30, 1964, in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in Princeton, New Jersey.
- Co-founded Phish at the University of Vermont; the band played its first gig on December 2, 1983.
- Has written the bulk of Phish's original repertoire across four decades.
- Released Mercy (2022), his first all-acoustic solo album.
- Composed orchestral works including Time Turns Elastic (2008) and has performed with major symphony orchestras.
- Has recorded numerous solo studio albums, among them Traveler (2012) and Lonely Trip (2020).
