"Carnival" tours the world

In January and February, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra toured the world with Zachary’s brand-new orchestration of Robert Schumann’s Carnaval. In six concerts in the United States and Japan (including stops at Carnegie Hall in New York and Suntory Hall in Tokyo), the orchestra performed the 35-minute work alongside Chopin’s first Piano Concerto (featuring star pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii), and Nathalie Joachim’s brand-new work Vibran.

Click here for a preview video on TikTok about Zachary’s orchestration of Schumann’s piano work.

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New album: Fire-Flowers

Today marks the release of Fire-Flowers by Leaf Music! Buy or stream the album here, and click here for more information about the album, or to read its booklet. More information about the album:

Luminous Voices presents Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem alongside contemporary pieces by Zachary Wadsworth in the album Fire-Flowers. Exploring themes of loss, grief, and hope, the album is led by Timothy Shantz. Laura Brandt (soprano), Jonathon Adams (baritone), Cheryl Emery- Karapita (piano), and Leanne Regehr (piano) collaborated to bring these pieces to life. Wadsworth’s Battle-Flags, is inspired by Walt Whitman’s Civil War experiences. Brahms’ iconic Requiem reflects personal tragedies and calls for empathy. The album concludes with Fire-Flowers, where Wadsworth captures E. Pauline Johnson’s poem in a musical tale of optimism and renewal.

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Review of "Faces of the Past"

Zachary’s new cantata “Faces of the Past” received its premiere performance by Boston’s Cantata Singers (led by Noah Horn) on October 29th, 2023. The piece, and the concert, received positive mention in the Boston Musical Intelligencer (click here to read the entire review by Julian Gau):

What a gorgeous paean to the joys and sorrows of life and living as we experience it. Wadsworth’s composition traced a compelling arc from remembrance to anguish to rediscovered hope. Vastly colorful harmonies bloomed within a wide variety of instrumental and choral timbres, unafraid to be darkly bitter, vulnerable without being overly effusive... “Faces of the Past” left a heartfelt imprint upon my own memory.
— Julian Gau
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New album: Ispiciwin

Luminous Voices has just released a new album that includes Zachary’s choral composition Far, Far Away. The album is entitled Ispiciwin, meaning “Journey,” and it includes brand-new music by Andrew Balfour, Carmen Braden, Arthur Bachmann, Laura Hawley, Stuart Beatch, Sherryl Sewepegaham, Jessica McMann, and Walter MacDonald White Bear.

Purchase the album from Leaf Music here.

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New album: As One

Zachary’s song cycle The Place for No Story has just been released in a premiere recording by tenor Jos Milton and pianist Melinda Coffey Armstead. The album, As One, released by Albany Records, includes planet-centered compositions by Robert Owens, Ned Rorem, Zachary Wadsworth, Srul Irving Glick, and Libby Larsen.

Click here to listen on Spotify.

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Virginia Public Media Interview

Zachary joined journalist Mike Goldberg, composer Courtney Bryan, and violinist Laura Frautschi in a conversation about the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s winter tour with Branford Marsalis. Click here to listen to this conversation on Virginia Public Media about Courtney’s new composition Carmen Jazz Suite on Themes by Bizet and Zachary’s new orchestration of Debussy’s saxophone Rhapsody.

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