Zachary Greer is a multi-instrumentalist and Music Composer for film, television and digital media from New Brunswick, Canada. Pursuing his lifelong passion for film and music, Zachary achieved his BA with a concentration in Music from St. Thomas University, where he developed his skills in composition under the tutelage of notable composer and professor Martin Kutnowski. During his time at St Thomas University, Zachary won the NBRMTA Student Composer Competition in 2016, and had various composition pieces performed by the university's chamber ensemble, as well as premieres by the Saint John String Quartet. While attending St. Thomas University he scored his first feature film Alice in the Attic at age 20
Following his final year of studies, Zachary was selected to participate in the prestigious ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop at NYU where he composed original work under the critique of prominent composers like Sean Callery (Jessica Jones) and Mark Snow (X-Files). Zachary also spent a year studying Music Composition at Memorial University in St. John's Newfoundland, where he was one of three composers selected in the Gower Band Competition in 2018.
Since graduating, he has gone on to compose music for multiple projects including two theatre productions, The Trickster of Seville and his Stone Guest and No White Picket Fence. In 2018 Zachary received the Excellence in Music Composition award at the Silver Wave Film Festival for the short film, The Nashwaak.
Recently, Zachary has scored the documentary series Never Say Die on Bell Fibe 1, The award winning short doc Fighter directed by Meagan Brown and the feature documentary Meet and Eat at Lee's Garden on CBC Gem. You can also hear his music featured in the 2021 documentary series Yukon Harvest on APTN.
Zachary also remains active as a solo artist producing instrumental albums that experiment with different genres and ensemble styles. His most recent release, The Duel, follows the historical duel between George Street and George Wetmore in 1821, New Brunswick. Working with folk-pop duo "Pallmer" and violinist Ali Johnson, the album plays as a dark, acoustic-folk soundtrack to the historic event. Currently, Zachary is working on his second album Partridge Island, which is also based on New Brunswick history, as well as the Great Famine in Ireland.