Born on December 12, 1984 in Henderson, Kentucky, Mr. Cabell began his formal music training in piano and horn at the age of ten. In 1998 he studied composition and theory with Dr. Emil Ahnell, a music professor at Kentucky Wesleyan College. During six summers, Mr. Cabell studied horn with Douglas Van Fleet, Marshal Sealy, and Jeff Scott, and composition with Kenji Bunch, Andrew Dionne, and David Dzubay. From the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2003 he attended Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. While there he studied composition with Dr. John Boyle and Dr. Michael Albaugh and continued his studies in horn with Ms. Julie Schleif and piano with Mr. Thomas Bara. Currently Mr. Cabell is a composition student of Dr. Jennifer Higdon and Dr. Richard Danielpour at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA.

In 2002 Mr. Cabell received an American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Morton Gould Young Composers Award for his composition Earbox Essay. Also, in 2002, he received the Neil Rabaut Memorial Composition Scholarship from the Interlochen Arts Academy. In February of 2003 Mr. Caball was chosen as the Illinois Wesleyan High School Composer of the Year and was invited to have a performance of his horn quartet Mind?s Eye at their annual New Music Symposium. In January of 2003 Mr. Cabell was invited and attended the National Federation for the Advancement of the Arts (NFAA) Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) week. While there he received the highest award level possible. Several months later, he was nominated and chosen to be one of the seven 2003 Presidential Scholars in the Arts. Due to that honor, Mr. Cabell received a performance of his Seven Dedications, for woodwind quintet and piano at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. In June of 2004, Cabell was honored with the 2nd Prize in the Victor Herbert ASCAP Competition and a Joseph H. Bearns Prize in Music from Columbia University.

One Oh Three, for tenor and chamber orchestra (2001)
Fantasy, for horn octet (2001)
Music for Brass, Percussion, and Strings (2001)
Earbox Essay, for large orchestra & choir (2002)
Hallucinations, a sonata for cello and piano (2002)
Mind?s Eye, for horn quartet (2002)
Seven Dedications, for woodwind quintet and piano (2003)
Still Dream, for horn and piano (2003)
Cosmicomic, for orchestra (2004)
Fanfare for Owensboro, for orchestra (2004)
Sins of the Lion, for marimba duet (2004)
Three Hands, for fl.cl.perc.pno.vln.vla. & vc (2005)
Weary, for soprano and prepared piano (2005)
Prometheus Unbound, for orchestra (2005)
Rum Diary, for string quartet (2005)
Celestial Spaces, for orchestra (2006)