The Mizzou New Music Initiative will present the second annual Mizzou New Music Summer Festival from Saturday, July 9, 2011 through Sunday, July 17 on the campus of the University of Missouri.
The 2011 Festival will include a series of public concerts featuring music from contemporary composers, as well as workshops, master classes and other events. The Festival’s guest composers for 2011 will be Roger Reynolds (pictured), winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for composition and professor at the University of California at San Diego, and Anna Clyne, a native of London who currently serves as the Mead Composer in Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The acclaimed new music group Alarm Will Sound, conducted by artistic director Alan Pierson, once again will serve as resident ensemble, as they did for the inaugural Festival in 2010.
Eight resident composers will be selected for the Festival through a portfolio application process to create a new work for Alarm Will Sound. They will receive composition lessons from Reynolds and Clyne; take part in rehearsals with Alarm Will Sound; and receive a premiere performance and professional live recording of their work. Composers selected as resident participants also will have the opportunity to return to Missouri for a residency at the Sinquefield Reserve sometime during the following academic year.
Last year, more than 120 composers, representing countries including the People’s Republic of China, France, Spain, Turkey, Korea, Mexico and the United States, submitted composition portfolios to participate in the festival. This year’s application process for resident composers begins November 1, 2010, and the deadline for submitting an application is February 1, 2011. For more information on applying to become a resident composer for the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, please visit http://newmusicsummerfestival.missouri.edu/application.html.
A complete listing of events, times, dates and venues for the 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival will be made available at a later date. For more information, please visit http://newmusicsummerfestival.missouri.edu/.
The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival and other programs of the Mizzou New Music Initiative are made possible through the generous support of the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. The City of Columbia Office of Cultural Affairs and the Missouri Arts Council also have provided financial assistance for the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival.