Zachary Good is a clarinetist, chamber musician and composer based in Chicago. He is the clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird, a member of Ensemble Dal Niente, and a founding Co-Artistic Director and member of the performance collective Mocrep. He is a frequent guest with Music of the Baroque Chicago, Present Music Milwaukee, International Contemporary Ensemble and the puppet company Manual Cinema. As an improviser, he performs and records with the trio ZRL and the quintet Honestly Same. As a composer, Good explores contrapuntal possibilities on the soprano clarinet with small–interval multiphonics (“close dyads”), creating the illusion of multiple clarinetists playing simultaneously. His discography includes releases on Cedille Records, Moon Glyph Records, American Dreams Records, Carrier Records, No Index, Homeroom, Parlour Tapes+, ears&eyes, and his own record label Add Dye Editions. Good is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Northern Illinois University, the Instructor of Clarinet at Harper College, and a chamber music coach with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. Good is a D’Addario Woodwinds Artist.
