ZACHARY JAMES RITTER
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Zachary James Ritter (he/they) is a composer who wants to work with you. Driven by making music with his friends and making friends with his music, Ritter strives to create works that resonate with his collaborators and audience through shared human experience. Frequently, he goes about this by incorporating the voice, electronics, or the quintessentially human aesthetics of failure (or some combination of these three). He is influenced most by electronica, minimalism, and traditional music of Ireland and America. His music often features layered textures with playfully unpredictable rhythms, as well as spare, raw musical landscapes which lend themselves to calm, meditative listening experiences. He likes to make music people want to listen to, music made in sincerity.
Ritter holds an MM in classical composition from Purchase Conservatory where he studied with Gregory Spears and Laura Kaminsky, and a BA in Music from Binghamton University where he studied composition with Daniel Thomas Davis, and voice with Professor Mary Burgess. He has written for ensembles including Ficino Ensemble, Quartetto Zuena, Choral Chameleon, The Cassatt Quartet, Fifth House Ensemble, Opera Elect, ModernMedieval, Contemporaneous, Momenta Quartet, and Yarn/Wire. He has also arranged works for Contemporaneous, Choral Chameleon, Present Music, and the Binghamton University Symphony Orchestra.
Ritter is currently a member of the Choral Chameleon (choralchameleon.com) volunteer chorus, and ECHOensemble (echoensemble.com). His upcoming projects include a new work for fixed media and ukulele for Brian Ellis, a new work for soprano and piano for Concept Lab, arrangements being performed by Contemporaneous, and performances with ECHOensemble and Choral Chameleon.
For more information, visit zacharyjamesritter.com.
