Zachary has been named a winner of the Pacific Chorale's 2007 Young Composer Competition. As a winner, he will take part in the Pacific Chorale's American Masterpieces Choral Festival, along with Morten Lauridsen, Alice Parker, and Eric Whitacre. His winning composition, Fantasy on a Theme by William Billings, will be performed during the festival. 

Zachary has been awarded 1st prize in the 1st annual Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition. This award results in a commission for a brand-new choral work based on text by Walt Whitman, entitled Look down, fair moon.

Zachary won the 2007 ASCAP / Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition. He has been awarded a commission to write a song cycle, entitled Pictures of the Floating World, which will be published by E.C. Schirmer and premiered in three cities.
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