Zane Zalis, Award Winning Composer, Lyricist, Educator, Producer

About the Speaker

Zane Zalis, award winning Composer/Lyricist/Educator/Producer has led a storied career in music and music education. His work has been recognized nationally and internationally with an invitation to become part of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshops in New York, to his present work with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Summer Music Festival in Murau, Austria. Zane is Composer Laureate for St. Paul’s College and has sat on the boards of Rainbow Stage and Virtuosi Concerts.  His most recent work, I Believe, continues to receive critical and popular acclaim and is garnering significant international attention.  Zane is married to his best friend Debbie for 32 years and they have two sons Ryan and Jordan.

About His Journey

Five years of thinking, researching, and writing about the Holocaust has left an indelible mark on my mind, heart and soul. This experience has been transforming in my attempt to understand humanity in its quest to be and become. Research travel to Europe, Israel, and Washington D.C. coupled with interviews of survivors and others have not only been informing and educational but have raised thoughts and questions that have challenged my faith, hope and reason.  Creating I Believe has been an inward journey of proportions that I never anticipated; it has been a transcending experience, a story that needs to be told.