Mizzou graduate student José Martínez has been selected by Third Coast Percussion to take part in their Emerging Composers Partnership for the 2016-17 season.

The Chicago-based ensemble chose Martínez (pictured) and Princeton graduate student Annika K. Socolofsky from among 99 applicants this year for the partnership program, which now is entering its third season.

Both composers will take part in a series of collaborative workshops in Chicago and create new works for Third Coast Percussion, which then will be premiered as part of the ensemble’s hometown concert series. Each composer also will receive an honorarium and a recording of their piece.

Martínez currently is working on a master’s degree in composition at Mizzou. He is a member of the Mizzou New Music Ensemble; was a resident composer at the 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival; and was the winner of the 2013 Sinquefield Composition Prize, the University’s highest honor for a composition student.

You can read more about his participation in Third Coast Percussion’s Emerging Composers Partnership here.