Zachary Bell
Composer
About
Zachary Bell is a composer from San Antonio, TX who aims to speak to the hearts and minds of his audience through beauty, intensity, and refinement of craft. Bell’s music has been performed/recorded by ensembles including Ensemble Linea, .abeceda, loadbang, Hub New Music, Unheard-Of Ensemble, And2 Percussion, the Baylor Wind Ensemble, the Baylor Symphony Orchestra, and the Peabody Symphony Orchestra. He has been a winner of the Deleuze New Music Collective Call for Scores and a co-winner of the Baylor Composition Competition. His music featuring the trombone has been performed at multiple iterations of the International Trombone Festival by the CU Boulder Trombone Studio, the Ohio Trombone Quartet, and bass trombonist Shane Stewart. Bell has also composed music for five short films and a feature length film, breadcrumbs, by Tristan Sparks-McMahon. Currently, Bell is earning a DMA in Composition at the Peabody Conservatory, where he studies with Kevin Puts. His other teachers at Peabody have been Felipe Lara and Michael Hersch, and his teachers at Baylor University were Scott McAllister and Ben Johansen.
Projects and News
Current Projects: Piece for Nois Saxophone Quartet, Piece for AndPlay Duo, Piece for Bent Wrench
Premiere and Performance: Tableaux and Primordial Ordeal – And2 Duo, November 29th, 2025 William Jewell College (Liberty, Missouri)
Premiere: Tableaux – VIRID Duo, November 6th, 2025 Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
Film Score Release: breadcrumbs – a film by Tristan Sparks-McMahon, now available on Fawesome
Performance: Tenderbox – UMKC Trombone Ensemble, October 27th, 2025, UMKC (Kansas City, Missouri)
Performance: Tenderbox – CU Boulder Trombone Ensemble, July 18th, 2025, International Trombone Festival @ Western University (London, Ontario, Canada)
Premiere: Adaptation of Septet–Love and Darkness Remain, April 12th, 2025 .abeceda ensemble, Cukrarna Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Premiere: Stone in River, Dwindle Away – Peabody Symphony Orchestra, April 5th, 2025, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
Performance: Arrival – Jaime García-Añoveros III, March 9th, 2025, Somerville Music Spaces (Somerville, MA)
Premiere: Arrival – Peter Sheppard-Skærved, October 24th, 2024, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
Premiere: Gradus I – Ambroise Aubrun, Jennifer Bewerse, and Mari Kawamura, August 3rd, 2024, Colburn School (Los Angeles, CA)
Premiere: Prelude–Evergreen – Iva Casian-Lakoš, June 9th, 2024, Evergreen Garden Center (San Antonio, TX)
Premiere: Zur Rosenzeit – Unheard-Of//Ensemble, June 8th, 2024, Mission San Jose (San Antonio, TX)
Premiere: Septet–Love and Darkness Remain – Ensemble Linea, May 8th, 2024, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
Performance: I Walk on Suns at Night – McKey Monroe, April 23rd, 2024, Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Baltimore, MD)
Performance: I Walk on Suns at Night – McKey Monroe, April 12th, 2024, DC Correctional Facility (Washington, DC)
Premiere: I Walk on Suns at Night – McKey Monroe, March 6th, 2024, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
Performance: Tenderbox – Fresno State Trombone Choir, March 5th, 2024, Fresno State University (Fresno, CA)
Performance: Primordial Ordeal – And2 Percussion, February 16th, 2024, UMKC Conservatory (Kansas City, MO)
Premiere: Through a Haze – Unheard-Of Ensemble, July 4th, 2023, San Antonio College (San Antonio, TX)
Premiere: The Other Shore Across – loadbang, June 20th, 2023, Longy School of Music (Boston, MA)
Premiere: The Embers in my Heart are Stoked – Myroslav Mykhailenko, May 3rd, 2023, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
Performance: Inhale Exhale – Isabelle Jamois, May 3rd, 2023, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
Recording: Tie Me to the Mast – Peabody Camerata, April 25th, 2023, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
Premiere: Primordial Ordeal for percussion duo – March 5, 2023, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
Premiere: Inhale, Exhale for flute – Nov. 30th, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
Premiere: Apples, Branches, Body – Sep. 21st at 6:30 PM, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD)
Recording: Apples, Branches, Body – Hub New Music recorded Aug. 9th (Del Mar, CA)
Premiere: In the Loge – Baylor School of Music musicians and the Baylor Classical Ballet Society – Apr. 23rd at 6:00 PM, Baylor University (Waco, TX)
Premiere: Tenderbox – Baylor Trombone Studio – Nov. 3rd at 7:30 PM, Baylor University (Waco, TX)
Premiere: Trial and Error, and Trial (2021 revised version) – Shane Stewart and Justin Snyder – 2021 International Trombone Festival (Columbus, GA)
Premiere: Crucible – Michelle Guzman and Jameson Platte – 2021 Atlantic Music Festival (Waterville, ME)
Contact
Please reach out through my email or social media if you have any questions or just want to form a connection. Thank you!
email: zacharybellmusic@gmail.com
phone: 210-563-3478
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