Tenor Zachary Vanderburg has been heralded as singing “with vocal luster, dramatic fire, and lyrical sympathy” – Augsburger Allgemeine. Performances this season include Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in festivals in southern France and northern Germany; Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2 Lobgesang at the Masterworks Festival; Bach’s Quodlibet, Cantata 147, and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy as an artist-in-residence at the Baroque on Beaver Island Music Festival; appearances with Music of the Baroque, of which he is a member and teaching artist, under the direction of Jane Glover and Nicholas Kraemer; his role debut of The Visitor in Philip Glass’ In the Penal Colony with Chicago Fringe Opera; and guest recitals at Roosevelt University, Ball State University, Chicago’s City Winery, PianoForte Foundation and The Musical Offering.

Recently, Zachary made his Orchestra Hall debut as the tenor soloist in the North American premiere of Jacob TV’s Mountaintop with the Chicago Sinfonietta, a performance he revisited in February. Comfortable in opera repertoire as well as concert and recital, past seasons have seen Zachary’s role debuts of Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Bohème and Leander in Nielsen’s Maskarade; a concert featuring Britten’s Serenade for Tenor and Horn at the Baroque on Beaver Island Music Festival; a performance in the 10th annual PianoForte Foundation Schubertiade; performances with the Chicago Opera Theater in Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco and Bloch’s MacBeth; European tours of Bruckner’s Te Deum, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and Mozart’s Coronation Mass headlining the Eutiner Festspiele, Festival Durance Luberon, Hamburg’s St. Michael’s Church, as well as other venues in Germany, France and Luxembourg; and appearances as a backup singer in Chicago with The Rolling Stones on their 50 & Counting tour. Zachary has been recorded for broadcast by the Bavarian Public Radio (Bayerischer Rundfunk), WFMT in Chicago, and Blue Lake Public Radio in Michigan. He is a founding member of Fourth Coast Ensemble, Chicago’s premiere classical vocal quartet. Zachary has a masters from the Chicago College of Performing Arts and is currently pursuing a fellowship in vocal chamber music at the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago. He is a student of American tenors Allan Glassman and Nicholas Phan.