William Zuckerman
Composer
 
Born in Boston in 1988, William Zuckerman is pursuing a degree in music composition from the University of Michigan, studying with Bright Sheng and Michael Daugherty. In the summer of 2008, William studied composition at the Freie Universität of Berlin with Juilliard Professor Samuel Adler. Awards and accolades for his music have come from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the New York Art Ensemble, the Music Teacher's National Association, the New England Conservatory, the National Association of Composers USA, who sponsored a performance of his music at Texas State University, the Young Audiences Foundation, and ASCAP, who has named William twice a finalist for their young composers Morton Gould prize. Recently completed commissions include works for the New Music Project ensemble of Kalamazoo, MI, San Francisco-based pianist Preben Antonsen, percussionist Jonathan Smith, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival, and the DJ-EZ Saxophone Quartet. His current projects include a work for an upcoming new music ensemble being formed at the Curtis Institute, who will tour and perform his work next year across the country. He is also being commissioned to write a film score to a documentary about a North African land area, which will be nationally broadcast in 2009-2010. Performances of his music have been staged at Tanglewood, Copley Plaza, the Walnut Hill arts academy, the Community Music Center of Boston, Amherst College’s Buckley Recital Hall, the New Synagogue Concert Hall of Berlin, Germany, the New England Conservatory, and the home of former United States Ambassador to Austria Swanee Hunt, among several other venues. In March of 2008, Eighth Blackbird gave a private performance of a work of his at the University of Michigan. Upcoming performances include premieres in San Francisco and at the Midwest Composer’s Symposium. William is currently working as a Professional Music Engraver to Pulitzer Prize-nominated Harvard Professor Lewis Lockwood and theorist Alan Gosman. His saxophone quartet Current, Deep, and Cool will soon be released on the Block M Records label and will be available for download on the iTunes Music Store in the Spring of 2009.