Zachary Good is a Chicago-based clarinetist, Baroque recorder player, composer, arranger, improviser, and educator. Zachary is clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird, a founding Co-Artistic Director of the performance collective Mocrep, one-third of the clarinet/percussion/cello trio ZRL, and one-fifth of Honestly Same. He has frequently performed and toured with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Manual Cinema, and Ensemble Dal Niente. His discography includes releases on American Dreams Records, Carrier Records, No Index, Homeroom, Parlour Tapes+, and others

As a composer, Zachary explores contrapuntal possibilities on the soprano clarinet with close dyad multiphonics. His music is quietly virtuosic, inspired by the intricacies of the clarinet and a love for Baroque nuance and form. As a collaborator he has co-composed album/concert length works with Tonia Ko (Up High), Lia Kohl (Standing Lenticular), Ben Roidl-Ward (Arb), ZRL (Physics for Listeners), and Mocrep (I Like My Friends). Zachary’s “Style Brisé Bass Clarinet'' project is an ongoing series of French Baroque harpsichord preludes arranged for bass clarinet.

Zachary is a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University and a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and DePaul University. He has held fellowships with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Aspen Contemporary Music program. Zachary is the winner of the 2021 Luminarts Classical Wind Fellowship. His body of research explores the phenomena and functionality of dyad multiphonics on the soprano clarinet.

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