Dec
11
2011
Zachary's setting of Gabriel's Message has been included in "Christmas Daybreak," a compilation of new Christmas music and poetry distributed by Public Radio International. The piece is expertly performed by Philadelphia-based chamber choir The Crossing, the Choir of St. Paul's Church, Chestnut Hill, and organist Scott Dettra.
Jun
12
2011
Zachary's award-winning anthem Out of the South Cometh the Whirlwind, performed by the Royal College of Music Junior Department Chamber Choir, was broadcast on The Choir, hosted by Aled Jones on BBC Radio 3. Visit the show page.
May
17
2011
Zachary has been named a winner in the King James Bible Composition Awards for his work, Out of the South Cometh the Whirlwind. The competition, organized by the King James Bible Trust and made possible by the generous support of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey, was held in honor of the 400th anniversary of the KJV. Zachary's piece will be performed in Westminster Abbey on 16 November, 2011, and it will be published by Novello. Press Release Choir & Organ Feature
Feb
21
2011
In celebration of President's Day, Zachary was commissioned by Judith Clurman to set a short sentence by President Clinton to music. The resulting Ode, has been included in the "Mr President" cycle, currently featured on NPR's Classical Music Blog. The piece has also been broadcast on Performance Today.
Nov
10
2010
E.C. Schirmer Publishing has just released Zachary's 2009 song cycle for soprano and piano, Pictures of the Floating World. The cycle features six settings of poems by the American poet Amy Lowell.
Buy it here, or through any of E.C. Schirmer's network of retailers
Mar
18
2011
Zachary has been named a finalist in the King James Bible Composition Awards for his composition, Out of the South Cometh the Whirlwind. These awards celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Version. The four finalists' pieces will be premiered in the Temple Church, London, on May 17, and Bob Chilcott and James Macmillan will be present to announce the winners. The event will be hosted by Katie Derham.
Sept
01
2010
PRB Productions has published Zachary's Suite for Viol Consort, The Muses, in their Contemporary Consort Series. They will also publish the original version for Violin, Viola da Gamba, and Harpsichord.
Buy it here
Mar
13
2010
Listen to excerpts of soprano Annamarie Zmolek singing Zachary's song cycle, Pictures of the Floating World, during a recent performance with the composer at the piano. Recorded at Rice University on April 9.
Nov
27
2009
Vivre Musicale's performance of for nothing lesse than thee was reviewed by the Palm Beach Arts Paper, which called the piece "a professional composition, imbued with a kind of shadowy elegance that reflected the uncertainty of the poems." Read it here.
Nov
2
2009
Zachary has been included in the Foundation for the Sacred Arts' Composer Registry. The Foundation's mission is to "revitalize Christian art and reestablish it as a dynamic and viable expression within the art world." Click here to peruse Zachary's choral works.
Sep
11
2008
Zachary has won Chamber Music Rochester's 2007-8 College Young Composer Competition with his String Quartet No. 2. LetterV · Listen to the quartet
Sep
11
2008
Zachary has won Chamber Music Rochester's 2007-8 College Young Composer Competition with his String Quartet No. 2. LetterV · Listen to the quartet
Jun
5
2008
Zachary's choral work, Beati Quorum Remissae, has just been published by Alliance Music Publishers, Inc. buy it here
Apr
18
2008
The Yale Schola Cantorum has just released two new CDs. One, Souvenirs de la France Profonde, features a recording of Zachary's Beati Quorum Remissae. The other features a beautiful recording of Bach's St. John Passion (1725 version). purchase page
Apr
3
2008
Zachary has been awarded a 2008 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award for his song cycle, Three Lullabies. ASCAP press release
Mar
30
2008
Read a review of the Pacific Chorale's premiere of Zachary's choral work, Fantasy on a Theme of William Billings.
Feb
3
2008
Zachary has been named a winner of the Pacific Chorale's 2007 Young Composer Competition.
Jan
20
2008
Zachary has been named a finalist in the Young New Yorkers' Chorus 2007 Composer Competition.
Dec
6
2007
Zachary has been awarded 1st prize in the 1st annual Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition.
Nov
16
2007
Zachary won the 2007 ASCAP / Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition. He has been awarded a commission to write a song cycle which will be published by E.C. Schirmer and premiered in three cities.
ASCAP press release · Playbill Arts · NewMusicBox · Richmond Times-Dispatch · Style Weekly
Jun
29
2007