Roger Zare Music

Short Bio

Roger Zare, originally from Sarasota, FL, started composing at age 14, writing a composition for string orchestra premiered by the Pine View School Chamber Symphony in Sarasota, Florida. In 2003, he won the National Federation of Music Clubs Composition Competition with his “Frolic” for violin and piano. In 2005, the New York Youth Symphony commissioned Roger to write an orchestral piece for them as part of their First Music competition. The work, The Other Rainbow, received its premiere in Carnegie Hall in February 2006. In 2007, Roger received a BMI Student Composer award for his orchestral work, Green Flash, and in 2008, he received the American Composers Orchestra Underwood Commission after participating in the annual New Music Readings with the same work.

Zare recently completed his first year as a masters candidate at the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Christopher Theofanidis. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the University of Southern California, where he studied with Donald Crockett, Tamar Diesendruck, Frederick Lesemann, and Morten Lauridsen.

Mr. Zare’s music has been performed by Pine View Chamber Symphony, the Pine View Chorus, the Shawnee Mission Northwest High School Orchestras, the Florida West Coast Symphony, ensembles at the Sarasota Music Festival, the Santa Monica Symphony Wind Quintet, and the USC Thornton Symphony and Wind Ensemble.