Featured Composer: Zach Zubow

Zach Zubow’s compositions have been featured on numerous new music conferences and festivals throughout the United States and abroad.  Zach was named regional winner in the 2011 SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission Award for his string quartet, Sundown, which has also won the 2012 College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Composition Award.  Sundown was also featured in the most recent publication of the SCI Journal of Music Scores, Volume 49. He was also the 2011 first prize recipient of the Five College Composition Competition hosted by the University of Massachusetts for his alto saxophone and percussion duo, Rounded Angles.  As well as composing, Zach has presented his research regarding beat class transformations in Ligeti’s Étude No. 4, Fanfares, from Ligeti’s first book of études that will be published in the online journal, Proceedings, for the New Music Festival at the University of Central Missouri.  A new CD of works produced by ABLAZE Records titled “Millennial Masters Series” was released in October 2011 that features Nebulae for flute and tape performed by Dr. Rebecca Ashe.  Zach has received degrees from Luther College, Illinois State University and completed his Ph.D. in composition from the University of Iowa. He is currently teaching music theory and composition courses at Coe College and Cornell College.

Zach’s composition teachers include David Gompper, Lawrence Fritts, Martha Horst, David Feurzeig, and Brooke Joyce.  For more information or to contact Zach, please feel free to contact Zach at zwzubow@gmail.com.