ROGER ZARE

Roger Zare (b. 1985) currently serves as an instructional assistant professor of music composition and theory at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. He has been praised for his “enviable grasp of orchestration” (New York Times) and for writing music with “formal clarity and an alluringly mercurial surface.” Often inspired by science, nature, and mythology, Zare’s compositions have been performed across the United States and on five continents by such musicians and ensembles as the American Composers Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Sarasota Orchestra, the Akropolis Reed Quintet, the Sinta Quartet, violinist Cho-Liang Lin, and clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein. Zare has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, BMI, the New York Youth Symphony, Copland House, the ACC Band Directors Association, and many others. He has served as composer-in-residence at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, the Salt Bay Chamber Music Festival, the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington and the SONAR new music ensemble. Zare loves interdisciplinary collaborations and has worked closely with CERN to present music inspired by the Large Hadron Collider on programs about the intersection of music and physics in Switzerland and Bulgaria. Zare holds degrees in composition from the University of Michigan, the Peabody Conservatory, and the University of Southern California. His teachers include Bright Sheng, Michael Daugherty, Kristin Kuster, Paul Schoenfield , Christopher Theofanidis, Derek Bermel, and Morten Lauridsen.

WORKS

• *FLEX* DECEMBER LULLABY recorded by University of Texas at El Paso Symphonic Band and Dr. Andrew Hunter

• MEDITATION ON AMEN recorded by Purdue University Symphonic Band and Dr. Jonathan Sweet

WEBSITE
http://www.rogerzare.com