Also during the summer of 2014, Zare was a participant in the inaugural Dulwich International Music Academy in Beijing, China, where his work for six cellos, Chameleon, was premiered by the cellist Jacob Shaw. In 2018, Zare returned to Europe to work with CERN scientists to present The Physics of Music and the Music of Physics at the Sofia Science Festival in Bulgaria. Across the lake from the Large Hadron Collider, the Donald Sinta Quartet joined him in Switzerland and performed his saxophone quartets, LHC and Z(4430). While a participant at the 3rd Intimacy of Creativity workshop in Hong Kong, Zare's work, Geometries, was awarded the audience favorite prize This resulted in Zare's return to Hong Kong in January 2014 to perform Geometries with Cho-Liang Lin, violin Jian Wang, cello and Burt Hara, clarinet at the 2014 Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival.Įmbracing his love of science, in July, 2014, Zare participated in a workshop presented by CERN at the Montreux International Jazz Festival, The Physics of Music and the Music of Physics. ![]() His wind ensemble composition, Lift-Off, won first place in the third annual Frank Ticheli Composition Competition and is published by Manhattan Beach Music. The string version of this work is currently published by FJH Music, and a number of his orchestral works, including Green Flash, are now published by the Theodore Presser Company. Robert Reynolds, a consortium of 29 wind ensembles across the country to commission a band transcription of his string piece, Mare Tranquillitatis. Also in 2012, Zare organized, with the help of the venerable H. The week culminated with the premiere of his Spectral Fanfare and a performance of Aerodynamics by the Sioux City Symphony, with Ryan Haskins conducting. Later in 2012, he was named 2012-13 Composer of the Year with the Sioux City Symphony and held a week-long residency in the Sioux City area, lecturing at various local colleges and teaching a composition master class at the University of South Dakota. Through a program called "Sound Investment," he was commissioned by a consortium of patrons to write a new piece for the festival, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. In 2012, Zare served as composer in residence with the Salt Bay Chamberfest in Damariscotta, Maine, and made three trips throughout the summer to present about his music to patrons of the festival. His recent clarinet concerto, Bennu's Fire, was written for and premiered by Alexander Fiterstein at the 2011 International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest and was the recipient of both a BMI Student Composer Award and an ASCAP Morton Gould Award. He has been composer in residence of the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington (2010) and the SONAR new music ensemble (2008-present). Zare has also received a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a fellowship recipient at the 2010 Aspen Composition Masterclass and the 2010 Cabrillo Festival of New Music Composer-Conductor workshop. Another of Zare's orchestral works, Aerodynamics, received a 2009 BMI student composer award and was premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra as part of the 2009 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. In 2007, Roger won a BMI student composer award for his orchestral work, Green Flash, and has subsequently been awarded the 2009 ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize and the 2008 American Composers Orchestra Underwood Commission for the same work. The 65th composer to win this commission, Roger wrote an orchestral composition titled The Other Rainbow, which was premiered in Carnegie Hall in February 2006. ![]() In early 2005, the New York Youth Symphony commissioned Roger to write an orchestral piece for them as part of their First Music competition. ![]() Zare was previously an instructional assistant professor of theory and composition at Illinois State University.Īn award-winning composer, Roger has written works for a variety of ensembles, including solo, chamber, choral, and full orchestra works. Currently, Zare is serving as a visiting assistant professor of music in the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University. Roger holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts (2012) from the University of Michigan, a Master of Music (2009) from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor of Music (2007) from the University of Southern California. Currently based in Chicago, he was born in Sarasota, Florida, and began playing piano at age 5 and violin at age 11 he started composing at age 14. Roger Zare has been praised for his “enviable grasp of orchestration” (New York Times) and for writing music with “formal clarity and an alluringly mercurial surface.” His music often takes inspiration from science, nature, mathematics, and mythology.
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