Short Bio
A composer with a knack for recognizing the potential in seemingly incompatible musical ingredients, Zach Koors is creating a body of work that is a genuine embodiment of his continual exploration in music. Inspired by the simple beauty of everyday things in the world around us, Zach’s concert works often make use of musical metaphors to represent the non-musical. He has been commissioned to write for percussion, concert band, church music groups, children’s choir, and numerous chamber music configurations. Meanwhile, Zach has independently created post-rock/electronic instrumental songs that exist as an outlet to combine his background in drums, percussion, concert composition, and studio production. While a music educator, Zach created a book for his students titled “10 Etudes for Marimba & Four Hands”, which was published by Tapspace and has sold hundreds of copies around the world. On streaming platforms and Bandcamp, Zach’s unique musical voice can be heard in concert music, drums and synthesizers, ambient music, and family lullabies. His compositions are published by Tapspace, Per-Mus Publications, and Koors Music Publishing.
Longer Bio
A composer with a knack for recognizing the potential in seemingly incompatible musical ingredients, Zach Koors is creating a body of work that is a genuine embodiment of his continual exploration in music. Inspired by the simple beauty of everyday things in the world around us, Zach’s concert works often make use of musical metaphors to represent the non-musical. He has been commissioned to write for percussion, concert band, church music groups, children’s choir, and numerous chamber music configurations. Meanwhile, Zach has independently created post-rock/electronic instrumental songs that exist as an outlet to combine his background in drums, percussion, concert composition, and studio production. While a music educator, Zach created a book for his students titled “10 Etudes for Marimba & Four Hands”, which was published by Tapspace and has sold hundreds of copies around the world. On streaming platforms and Bandcamp, Zach’s unique musical voice can be heard in concert music, drums and synthesizers, ambient music, and family lullabies. His compositions are published by Tapspace, Per-Mus Publications, and Koors Music Publishing.
Recent commissions and performances of original compositions include — “Friend Rhapsody” for concert band, premiered by the Gahanna-Jefferson All-District 8th grade band, in loving memory of Feixiang and Joshua Friend; “One Foundation” for SATB, concert band, organ, and piano four-hands, commissioned and premiered by Stonybrook Church in Gahanna, OH; “Psalm 104” for SATB, organ, brass quintet and timpani, commissioned and premiered by Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Dublin, OH; “Bound” for flute and clarinet, commissioned by Emily and Zack Dierickx, performed at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention; “Eighty Six” for flute choir, performed by the Ohio State University Flute Troupe at the NFA Convention in MN.
In recent years Zach was actively composing for and performing with his own quartet, Knisely, comprising violin, clarinet, piano and vibraphone. They released a self-titled album featuring music composed by Zach and others in the group. Because the group was formed just before the pandemic, their first performances were online, then outdoors, and then finally indoors for a variety of concert audiences, church congregations and charity events.
Zach has self-produced and released several albums, EPs and singles — “Knisely”, original music for violin, clarinet, piano, and vibraphone; “Lullabies and Other Sweet Songs” created by Zach and his wife, Sophie, as a Christmas present to their family; “This Singular”, “Listen To”, and “Impasse”, which are post-rock/electronic instrumental songs created independently by Zach; “Etch”, a live premiere recording of a 30-minute work Zach composed for 18 musicians.
Previously as a music educator, Zach's experience included maintaining a studio of about 40 private students per week, teaching marching percussion, and leading a West African drumming class for a group of cancer survivors and caregivers in central Ohio. His students studied drums, percussion, piano and composition, ranging in age from 4 to adult.
Recent commissions and performances of original compositions include — “Friend Rhapsody” for concert band, premiered by the Gahanna-Jefferson All-District 8th grade band, in loving memory of Feixiang and Joshua Friend; “One Foundation” for SATB, concert band, organ, and piano four-hands, commissioned and premiered by Stonybrook Church in Gahanna, OH; “Psalm 104” for SATB, organ, brass quintet and timpani, commissioned and premiered by Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Dublin, OH; “Bound” for flute and clarinet, commissioned by Emily and Zack Dierickx, performed at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention; “Eighty Six” for flute choir, performed by the Ohio State University Flute Troupe at the NFA Convention in MN.
In recent years Zach was actively composing for and performing with his own quartet, Knisely, comprising violin, clarinet, piano and vibraphone. They released a self-titled album featuring music composed by Zach and others in the group. Because the group was formed just before the pandemic, their first performances were online, then outdoors, and then finally indoors for a variety of concert audiences, church congregations and charity events.
Zach has self-produced and released several albums, EPs and singles — “Knisely”, original music for violin, clarinet, piano, and vibraphone; “Lullabies and Other Sweet Songs” created by Zach and his wife, Sophie, as a Christmas present to their family; “This Singular”, “Listen To”, and “Impasse”, which are post-rock/electronic instrumental songs created independently by Zach; “Etch”, a live premiere recording of a 30-minute work Zach composed for 18 musicians.
Previously as a music educator, Zach's experience included maintaining a studio of about 40 private students per week, teaching marching percussion, and leading a West African drumming class for a group of cancer survivors and caregivers in central Ohio. His students studied drums, percussion, piano and composition, ranging in age from 4 to adult.
