With the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival set to start on Monday, July 24, the MICF has been in the news.

The website I Care If You Listen, which has an international following among composers, musicians, and new music enthusiasts, offered extensive coverage of the festival with “5 Questions for Stefan Freund,” which included several photos and a SoundCloud playlist of the 2016 MICF’s eight world premieres.

Freund – the artistic director of the MICF and the Mizzou New Music Initiative, professor of composition at Mizzou, and cellist for Alarm Will Sound – used the opportunity to tell ICIYL’s worldwide audience all about the festival and how it fits into MNMI’s array of programs for composers at all stages of their careers.

On Sunday, July 16, the Columbia Daily Tribune published a feature story, “Face the Music,” previewing the MICF. The article by the Tribune‘s Aarik Danielsen, which was the cover story of the paper’s “Sunday Blend” section (pictured), featured interviews with resident composers Carolina Heredia and Christopher Mayo.

The Tribune and Danielsen followed up that story with three sidebars published online: one profiling the MICF’s resident ensemble Alarm Will Sound, one featuring a wide-ranging Q&A about the festival with MNMI managing director Jacob Gotlib, and one touting the MICF’s “can’t miss” moments.

Gotlib also was interviewed by Connor Lagore of the Columbia Missourian for that newspaper’s preview of the MICF, “Composers descend upon Columbia for new-music festival,”

On Tuesday, July 25, Columbia’s NBC affiliate KOMU aired a story about the festival by reporter Nick Allen, “Mizzou International Composers Festival begins eighth annual showcase.”

In addition, over the past few weeks the festival’s resident and distinguished guest composers all have talked with KMUC’s Trevor Harris for the station’s weekly “Mizzou Music” program, which airs at 6:00 p.m. every Wednesday. Those interviews have been archived on KMUC’s website.