Louis Goldford will be the first visiting composer on the Mizzou campus in 2017, coming to Columbia next month for a weekend residency that will include a presentation of works, a coaching session with the Mizzou New Music Ensemble, and a concert.

Two of his compositions – “Travertine Hybrid #3,” for violin and electronics, and “Giffen Good,” for trombone and electronics – will be featured in the Mizzou music faculty’s electroacoustic concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 11 at Whitmore Recital Hall.

The performance also will include music written by Mizzou New Music Initiative managing director Jacob Gotlib, retired composition professor and MNMI co-artistic director emeritus W. Thomas McKenney, and Phillip Sink, who is MNMI’s first post-doctoral fellow and curated the concert program.

Goldford (pictured) is a St. Louis native who currently is a doctoral fellow studying composition at Columbia University in New York City. Before enrolling there, he earned his bachelor’s degree in composition from Webster University in St. Louis and a master’s degree from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

His works have been performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Modelo62, and the Meitar Ensemble, and featured at the International Computer Music Conference, the Northwestern University New Music Conference, and June in Buffalo, among others.

Goldford received an Honorable Mention from the 2015 American Composers Orchestra / Underwood New Music Readings, and in 2014 was the recipient of a Dean’s Prize in music composition from Indiana University.

More recently, he was named the winner of the 2017 Suzhou (Chou’s) International Commission Competition, and also was accepted into the Cursus program at IRCAM in Paris, where he previously completed the Computer Music Workshop (Atelier d’informatique musicale) while studying at the IRCAM Académie and festival ManiFESTE.

You can hear some of Louis Goldford’s music on his SoundCloud page.