Short bioZachary Wadsworth (b. 1983) is a young composer of contemporary art music. His music has received several awards, including a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards, and first prizes in the ASCAP / Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition, the first Long Leaf Opera One Act Opera Competition, the Chamber Music Rochester Young Composer Competition, the Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition, and the Pacific Chorale Young Composer Competition. 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. Zachary is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music (BM, 2005) and Yale University (MM, 2007), and he is currently pursuing a Doctorate in music composition at Cornell University. Long bioThe music of Zachary Wadsworth, praised for its "evocative mixture of old and new," includes works for solo instruments and voices, choirs, chamber ensembles, and orchestras. Zachary's opera, Venus and Adonis, has been performed by three different companies and has been hailed as an "astonishingly confident" and "mesmerizing" work. As first-prize winner of the 2007 ASCAP / Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition, Zachary's new song cycle, Pictures of the Floating World, was premiered in February, 2009 at the Lincoln Center Library in New York. Other awards include a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007), three ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards, and first prizes in the first Long Leaf Opera One Act Opera Competition (2006), the Chamber Music Rochester Young Composer Competition (2007), the Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition (2007), and the Pacific Chorale Young Composer Competition (2008). While studying composition, he also received the Howard Hanson Large Ensemble Prize from the Eastman School of Music and the Frances E. Osborne Kellogg Memorial Prize from the Yale School of Music. Two of Zachary's works, O Saving Victim and Beati Quorum Remissae, have been recorded 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 ASCAP, The Commission Project, the Hanson Institute for American Music, MAYFEST, the Eastman School of Music, Smith College, St. Anne Church, Rochester, and St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rochester. His works have been performed by the Washington National Opera chorus, 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. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Zachary (b. 1983) is a graduate of 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. Zachary is also an active pianist and singer, performing regularly in chamber music, solo vocal, and choral settings. As a tenor, he 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. |
