Roger Zare Wins ACO's Underwood Commission

Roger Zare

Composer Roger Zare has been named the winner of American Composers Orchestra's 2008 Underwood Emerging Composers Commission, bringing him a $15,000 commission for a work to be premiered by American Composers Orchestra. Zare won the top prize at ACO's annual Underwood New Music Readings with his work Green Flash. Zare recently was named composer in residence for 2008-2009 with SONAR, a Peabody Conservatory student ensemble, for which he will be writing a chamber opera and other works. Four of the other finalists at the New Music Readings were ASCAP members: Ruby Fulton, Takuma Itoh, Andrew McKenna Lee and Conrad Winslow.