A native of Los Angeles, the tenor Zachary Wilder pursued his training at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. In 2013 he was accepted as a fellow into William Christie’s academy “Le Jardin des Voix”; since then he has also performed with Christie’s ensemble Les Arts Florissants throughout Europe and the United States. Additional credits include with the Les Talens Lyriques, the Collegium Vocale Gent, the Bach Collegium Japan, and the Ensemble Pygmalion. He has sung in Handel’s Messiah for San Francisco Symphony and in Haydn’s Seven Last Words for the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. Zachary Wilder has appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Opéra Royal de Versailles, and the Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen. His discography includes Rameau’s Zaïs with Les Talens Lyriques, Félicien David’s Le Désert, and Zamponi’s Ulisse nell’isola di Circe.

April 2017