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The music of ZACHARY WADSWORTH, praised for its "evocative mixture of old and new," includes works for solo instruments, choral works, art songs, chamber music, orchestral pieces, and an opera. He is also an active pianist and singer, performing regularly in chamber music, solo vocal, and choral settings. A 25-year-old native of Richmond, Virginia, Zachary has received several composition awards, including first prizes in the 2007 ASCAP / Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition, the first Long Leaf Opera One Act Opera Competition, the Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition, and the Pacific Chorale Young Composer Competition, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three Morton Gould Young Composers Awards from ASCAP, the Howard Hanson Large Ensemble Prize and the Simon Rose Memorial Scholarship from the Eastman School of Music, and the Frances E. Osborne Kellogg Memorial Prize from the Yale School of Music. Recordings of his choral works, "O Saving Victim" and "Beati Quorum Remissae," are available on the Gothic record label, and the latter has been published by Alliance Music Publications. An energetic compositional collaborator, he has received commissions from numerous individuals and organizations, including The Commission Project, the Hanson Institute for American Music, the Eastman School of Music, Smith College, St. Anne Church, Rochester, and St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rochester. His pieces have been performed by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra, Long Leaf Opera, and by ensembles at Cambridge University, Yale University, the Eastman School of Music, Westminster Choir College, Smith College, and Nazareth College. Zachary studied composition at the Eastman School of Music (BM, 2005) and Yale University (MM, 2007), and he is currently pursuing a DMA in music composition at Cornell University. His composition teachers have included Steven Stucky, Roberto Sierra, Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, Ingram Marshall, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Robert Morris, David Liptak, James Willey, and Syd Hodkinson. He has also studied at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the Aspen Music Festival and School. As a tenor, Zachary has performed with the Eastman School of Music's Berio Festival, the Ossia new music ensemble, Eastman's Collegium Musicum and Musica Nova, the Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Yale Schola Cantorum, and New York State Baroque. |
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