Music Director
Scott A. Zarchy
Scott A. Zarchy is a cellist and composer from Long Island, New York. Mr. Zarchy has received Bachelor of Music degrees in Cello Performance and Music Education from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University with minor studies in composition, and currently holds the position of Orchestra Director at Patchogue-Medford High School in Medford,NY.
As a performer, Mr. Zarchy began playing the cello at the age of 4 and has studied with Mary Park (on Long Island), and Mihaly Virizlay and Alan Stepansky (at the Peabody Conservatory). He has participated in master classes with reknowned cellists Alisa Weilerstein, Natasha Brofsky and Amit Peled. As an active soloist, orchestral player and chamber musician, Mr. Zarchy has performed in venues including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. He was a featured soloist with the Camerata String Orchestra on numerous occasions on Long Island and on tour with the orchestra in Washington.
A composer since the age of 10, Mr. Zarchy has seen several works receive world premieres. The Camerata String Orchestra premiered his first orchestral work, 12 Variations on a theme in B minor, in 1997. Since then, his educational works have been performed by musicians in public schools on Long Island and in Howard County, Maryland. In addition, under the tutelage of Dr. Bruno Amato at Peabody, Mr. Zarchy has seen the recent premiere of two new chamber works by Peabody musicians. Last November, the South Shore Symphony gave the premiere of his first major symphonic work, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, with orchestra president Wayne Lipton, for whom the work was written and to whom the work was dedicated, as soloist.
Program notes by Beth Bergman Fisher