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

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.

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.

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.

As part of Stefan Heucke’s Praetorius Projekt, Zachary wrote Fixation II for solo piano. Composer/Pianist Edward Rushton premiered the piece during a concert of more than 20 new works inspired by the “Pavane de Spaigne” by Michael Praetorius.

A recording of the November 1st concert was broadcast on Westdeutscher Rundfunk 3 on December 2, 2021. The concert recording will be available to stream here for the next 30 days, and Zachary’s work begins at 1:18:55.

Writing for the Calgary Herald, Kenneth DeLong wrote admiringly of Luminous' Voices’ Brahms and Wadsworth concert, which paired Brahms’ “Ein Deutsches Requiem” with two new works by Zachary. DeLong wrote:

Since no composer today writes in the style of Brahms, it is all too easy for the connection between these works to seem artificial, forced or arbitrary. But Wadsworth has too much experience with choral music and too much taste and musical judgement to fall into this trap. Together a splendid account of the Requiem by Luminous Voices, it was Wadsworth’s contributions that gave the concert its unique feeling and atmosphere — an “across the generations” mood that gracefully linked past and present, all in a sober reflection on death in the context of war.

Click here to read the full review in the Calgary Herald.