The announcement of the winners of this year’s Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) competition has prompted a flurry of press coverage around the state.

In St. Louis, sisters Bella and Lilly Ibur have been the subjects of several news stories. They recently were featured on Show Me St. Louis, which airs weekday afternoons on local NBC affiliate KSDK (Channel 5), in a segment that also included Lilly performing her composition “Spinning.” The story was reported by KSDK’s Dana Hendrickson, and you can see it online here.

Meanwhile, Lilly had a chance to perform her song “By My Side” on the morning news show of local Fox affiliate KTVI (Channel 2). You can see that report by KTVI’s Tim Ezell here.

Bella also was featured in a story written for the Kirkwood/Webster Groves edition of Patch.com by reporter Owen Skolar, which you can read here.

All the C.O.M.P winners from the St. Louis area were mentioned in this story from the Suburban Journals, a group of regional weeklies covering St. Louis and surrounding counties.

In Jefferson City, C.O.M.P. winner Megan Villanueva was profiled in a story by News-Tribune reporter Michelle Brooks, while the four winners from Springfield were recognized in a blog post by News-Leader reporter Claudette Riley.

This year’s C.O.M.P. winners will perform their compositions at the Creating Original Music Project Festival, which will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. this Saturday, April 23 in the Fine Arts Building on the University of Missouri campus.