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Matthew Zachary

Stressless music for a stressed out world.

About Me


Matthew Zachary was a 21-year old college senior and aspiring concert pianist and composer en route to film school to become a Hollywood film composer when he slowly lost use of his left hand, was diagnosed with pediatric brain cancer (medulloblastona) and told he'd likely never perform again.
Twelve years, four albums and scores of concerts later, Matthew's struggle to get busy living has inspired countless thousands. Today, Matthew is an award-winning musician and composer, accredited thought-leader in public health, a leading authority on the youth cancer culture, a highly credentialed and coveted motivational speaker, and a burgeoning social entrepreneur with the founding of the I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation in 2007.
A member of the prestigious Google Health Advisory Council, Matthew has 15 years of experience in advertising, youth culture marketing, information technology and visual communications for print and web in addition to strategic expertise public relations, consumer healthcare, nonprofit management and social media.
Matthew has won several industry awards and has been recognized internationally for his innovations as a visionary trend influencer and change agent who has always been ahead of his time. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Matthew holds an interdisciplinary BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton that combined the music, theater, computer science, and sociology disciplines
Read Matthew's extended biography at MatthewZachary.com .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/29/2005
Band Website: MatthewZachary.com
Band Members: Matthew Zachary, solo piano
Influences: Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, George Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Beethoven, Lizst, Mussorgsky, Billy Joel, Bruce Hornsby, Michael Gettel, David Lanz, Danny Wright, Dream Theater, The Aquarium Rescue Unit, Rush.
Sounds Like: George Winston meets Bill Evans meets Billy Joel meets Stephen Sondheim meets Bruce Hornsby meets George Gershwin meets Chopin.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Rebuilding My Religion

MySpace is my space. Visions kinetic, waxing philosophic. Feeling better. Confident. Now. Had a good day. Not going to get carried away. Verizon actually fixed my phone offsite. My computer supplies s...
Posted by Matthew Zachary on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:14:00 PST

Rebuilding my religion...

Giving up the dream...So tired today...What is love? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more.Just kidding.But the matrix has me.
Posted by Matthew Zachary on Mon, 08 May 2006 09:31:00 PST

Get busy living?

There is a marked difference in how cancer survivors of all ages view their diagnosis today. No longer bystanders to their own disease, they are more educated, more involved and more empowered than ev...
Posted by Matthew Zachary on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:01:00 PST