Zachary was recently interviewed for the Juilliard American Songmakers Interview Project, along with composers Lowell Liebermann, Martin Bresnick, Gilda Lyons, Daren Hagen, and many others. Click here to read the interview.
Zachary's vivid double-choir arrangement of the classic Basque carol Gabriel's Message has just been published by E.C. Schirmer. Commissioned by The Crossing and St. Paul's Church, the piece is now available for online purchase through Canticle Distributing.
Writing in the Calgary Herald, Stephan Bonfield raved about Luminous Voices' "One Voice, Many Voices" concert, which included Zachary's meditation on life and travel, Come to the Road:
“I am a growing fan of Wadsworth’s music, if only to say that the best years of his choral writing and maturity are here right now, and considerably more lie in front of him, as evidenced when Luminous Voices sang the world première of his cantata The Far West, this past November.
Finished two years ago and commissioned by Cornell University for performance at its 145th Commencement Ceremonies, Come to the Road, with poetry by the great American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar, is a serene work of considerable impact, beckoning the listener repeatedly to a wanderer’s way upon the road of life. Wadsworth’s musical language gets this idea just perfectly with lush harmonic chordal parallelism, gentle lyricism, and quiet hypnotic self-assurance, inviting the listener to a bucolic carefree world. Luminous Voices coalesced the work into a much-needed focused sound, which I prefer to a larger choral exposition, lending a spectral intimacy to every chord that illuminated every word of text.”
Zachary is delighted to announce that he has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Music at Williams College, where he will teach courses in music composition and music theory. Williams College has been called America's top college (Forbes) and the best liberal arts college in the United States (US News and World Report).
Zachary is thrilled to return for the fourth time as composer-in-residence at the Staunton Music Festival in August, 2015. The festival's thrilling season will include two world premieres by Zachary, along with a wide variety of work, from Bach's St. John Passion to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King. Tickets are on sale now, and can be purchased here.
The choir of the Cathedral Church of the Redeemer has just released a CD entitled "Ikonic Mass," which is anchored by Zachary's mass of the same name. The recording also includes Zachary's hymn, Immortal Love, For Ever Full, along with music by Bach, Elgar, and Togni. Click here for ordering information.