The music of Zack Browning is described as “way-cool in attitude” and “speed-demon music”

(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) and “propulsive, giddy, rocking…, a rush of cyclic riffs and

fractured meters” (The New York Times). The Irish Times has proclaimed he is “bringing together

the procedures of high musical art with the taste of popular culture”. The CD “Banjaxed” on

Capstone Records contains eight of his original compositions for voice, instruments and

computer-generated sounds and has been called “dramatic, exciting, rhythmic, high-energy music”.

Browning’s composition awards have included an Illinois Arts Council Composer Fellowship and

a Chamber Music America Commission. Performances include the Bonk Festival of New Music

(Tampa), the International Society for Contemporary Music Festival (Miami), International Computer

Music Conference (New Orleans), Spark Festival (Minneapolis), Gaudeamus Music Week

(Amsterdam), Composers Choice Festival (Dublin), Sonorities Festival (Belfast) , Skinneskatteberg

Festival (Sweden),  Asian Contemporary Music Festival (Seoul), and National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center (Taipei).  Recent lecture performances include Jilin University, Northeast Normal University, and

Nanjing Normal University in China; Seoul National University in South Korea; and National Taiwan

Normal University, Taipei National University of the Arts,  Fu-Jen Catholic University,  and Tunghai University in Taiwan.  Browning is an associate professor emeritus of music composition at the

University of Illinois.