Zach Herchen, saxophone
Based in New York City, saxophonist Zach Herchen performs contemporary, jazz, and rock music. Zach loves new music is constantly working with composers. He has premiered 28 pieces since 2003 ranging from jazz tone poems to Japanese noise rock to multimedia works. Currently Zach is completing his Emerging Voices Project with opera singer Elisabeth Halliday. They have commissioned 4 composers to write works for saxophone and voice, and will be releasing an album of the works in 2011. Zach is a founding member of the AM/PM Sax Quartet and performs with the rock band Man Down.
Zach has performed at the Look & Listen Festival (NYC), Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (2011 staff, New England Conservatory), Spectral Summer Professional Performance Workshop (Boston University), Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (2011 Conference), 4th International Master-Class for Classical Saxophone (Laubach, Germany), and was a2008 artist-in-resident at Wildacres Retreat. In 2011 he will be performing at the electroacoustic festival Third Practice (University of Richmond). Zach has performed as a soloist in Italy, Sweden, and Germany, and at Duke University and New England Conservatory. He performed on Scott Alexander’s recent album “Scott Alexander Makes a Big Deal Out of It” and Man Down’s album “Somewhere Down In Florida”.
Zach holds a MM and BM in Saxophone Performance (and a BM in Recording Arts Engineering) from The Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he was a recipient of the Richard Franko Goldman Prize for performance. Zach has studied with Gary Louie, Gary Thomas, Timothy McAllister, Arno Bornkamp, Vincent David, Jan Schulte-Bunert, and Ties Mellema.
See and hear Zach at www.zachherchen.com.
