Superb composition! The choirs are magnificent!

October Song is so beautiful...I don't ever want it to end!

this is almost surreal. i can feel the breeze. thank you for this beautiful work.

This is a cover of the song "Into Orbit," originally written, produced and performed by Alex Isley. This was done as a graduate level production project to improve and showcase my production and engineering skills.

Personnel:

Garrett Scroggs - Electric piano programming, recording, editing, mixing & mastering
Autumn Mallard - Lead and backing vocals
Chris Tatem - Electric guitars
Mickey Clark - Bass guitar
Arron McMorris - drums

Into Orbit (Cover)

The Master Singers
Dr. Gary R. Schwartzhoff, conductor 

In my personal opinion, there is nothing more beautiful about the Chippewa Valley (located in northwestern Wisconsin) than its colors in the fall. October Song, a poem written by Wisconsin Poet Laureate Max Garland for The Master Singers’ 22nd concert season, is a poem inspired by the colors and divine beauty that is within this valley.

I have always found peace and inspiration in the sites that surround me in Eau Claire. From the sun’s first golden rays glistening and dancing on rapids of the Chippewa River, to the silence of the night with its cool and soft stars watching over me. The beauty of this land is unmistakable. Although fall is covered in the warmth and richness of its lush golden colors, it is easy to forget how chilling it can be. Have you ever noticed how beautiful yet fragile the leaves of fall are?  How easy they crumble in one’s hands to dust….  Such is life

In the fall at UW -Eau Claire, WI.
In the fall at UW -Eau Claire, WI.

When going through a day-to-day routine it is easy to take the blessings of ones life for granted. Just as the golden leaves of fall are fragile so is ones soul. It is important for anyone to take a moment to step back and enjoy the delicate colors that surround their life. Think of friends and family and the laughs that you share with those few special individuals. Let that fill your soul and give life and purpose to what you do. Before you know it, the leaves of this tree called life will be falling as winters sting comes. So I leave you with this question, how many colors and leaves will be on your tree before your leaves fall?

-Zachary J. Moore

- See more at: http://zacharyjmoore.com/compositions/satb/october-song/#sthash.y9Nc2cYx.dpuf

October Song

From: The Singles: In My Mind (2014)
Originally performed by: Rihanna (feat. Calvin Harris)
Written by: Calvin Harris

Arrangement: Chris Rishel
Recorded and edited by: Chris Rishel
Mixed by: Ed Boyer
Mastered by: Dave Sperandio

Winner: Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement, CARA 2013
Winner: Best Mixed Collegiate Song, CARA 2013
Winner: Outstanding Arrangement, 2012 ICCA Midwest Semifinal
Winner: Outstanding Arrangement, 2012 ICCA Midwest Quarterfinal #2
Featured on: Best of BOCA: The First 20 Years
Featured on: BOCA 2013
Featured on: Sing 9: Supernovem
Featured on: Voices Only 2013

We Found Love

Composed by Zachary J. Moore. Arr. by C. Leonard Coduti. Conducted by Hector Salazar. Featuring Neil Jansen, euphonium, and Ellie Choate, harp. Recorded live on 4/17/2016 at Los Altos Methodist Church, Long Beach, CA.

Based on a choral work by Zachary J. Moore. 

October Song

Show me the changing light on the river,
And I'll show you a portrait of time
Its blessings and burdens and blurring of boarders
Between what's yours and what's mine

High in the arc of the waning season
The wild ragged flocks wind their way
By reckoning older than roadmap or reason-
Moonlight, starlight, the land's old sway

Pay attention to this cries the moon
How time pares the light away so soon,
Though deep in the sky, constellations and I
Will tend to the darkness's wounds

Rapids are the water wanting to sing
Wind is how the cottonwoods earn their wings
Intimations of snow in the fields afterglow
Tell more of what's coming than we want to know.

There's wealth in the mill and the market
An a singular wealth of mind
There's wealth of gold in the tamarack
That the lucky among us may find.

For the silos wearing sunsets like crowns
And the oak leaves changing ruby to rust
For the marshes on the outskirts of castaway towns
This is a song for the fugitive dust.
A song for the fugitive dust.

~Max Garland

The UW Eau Claire Wind Symphony (John R. Stewart, conductor) performing the world premiere of Zachary J. Moore's "In Memoriam." This is a live recording from February 24, 2016 in Gantner Concert Hall in Haas Fine Arts Center.  

In Memoriam - Zachary J. Moore - World Premiere

Good Night Dear Heart (by Dan Forrest, copyright Hinshaw Music) performed by The Westminster Williamson Voices, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, James Jordan, Conductor, Corey Everly, piano. As heard in Teaching Music through Performance (GIA Publications), and GIA choralworks CD, "Hole In The Sky". 

Good Night Dear Heart (Westminster Williamson Voices)

Alduin returns from the dead to the land of Nords.

V I D E O G A M E S || Alduin's Return

I've had many requests for the background demos from my old site so here they are. All just rough demos on the Roland 1880

Piano Acapella

Create|Recreate 05/05/2019

Always Keep This Close

Green And Yellow

Lil Wayne - Green And Yellow (Green Bay Packers Theme Song)

Zachary J. Moore (b. 1992) is an American composer and arranger, and recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire with a Bachelors degree in Music Education. Zach, who is a native resident of Wisconsin, attended Muskego High School and began composing in 2009 at the age of fifteen. Since then, he has had the opportunity to take master classes and guidance from some of the world’s leading choral composers including Eric Barnum, Dan Forrest, Ola Gjeilo, Ethan Wickman, Timothy Takach and Jake Runestad.

From 2013 to the present, Zach has received an increasing amount of commissions from both choral and instrumental ensembles all over the world. In 2014 the North Central American Choral Directors Association commissioned him for their project, “A Community That Sings.” More recently, he was commissioned by the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Wind Ensemble to write his first ever instrumental work, In Memoriam, for their 2016 performance at the CBDNA North Central Regional Conference. In addition to his numerous domestic commissions, Zach has also received two international commissions as well, the most recent being for the Cheong Gong High School Male Choir, winners of the 2013 International Busan Choral Competition. Currently, Zach is serving as the 2014-2016 composer-in-residence to The Eau Claire Master Singers. The residency has been comprised of five new commissions, one being The Fall of Rome, commissioned for the Franklin D. Roosevelt 75th Anniversary Concert being held in Washington D.C., 2016.

Aside from commissions, Zach’s compositions have received prestigious performances at state conventions, including Music Educator Association Conventions (Nebraska -2014 and Florida – 2015), Florida American Choral Director’s Association Conference (2015), and the North Central Choral Director’s Association Regional Conference (2014). Internationally, Zach’s works have been performed in Africa, Europe, North America and Asia, with the most recent notable performance being by the Taipei Youth Choir (2015) at the Taipei National Concert Hall.    

Throughout Zach’s career as a composer, he has received distinguished awards for his compositions. In 2010 his first composition received third place in the Wisconsin Student Music Association’s Student Composition Project. More recently, in 2014, he submitted an entry to the renowned American Prize national competition, earning third place as well. 

For information regarding scores and commissioning please visit, Zacharyjmoore.com.

- See more at: http://zacharyjmoore.com/the-composer/biography/#sthash.1UY47Y34.dpuf



October Song

Zachary J. Moore

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