Dustin Dunn’s composition “In the Shadow of Shepherd Mountain” has been selected as the winner of the 2018 UMSL Young Composers Competition (Wind Ensemble, division 2).

The work will be premiered by the UMSL Wind Ensemble as part of a concert at 7:30 p.m.  Wednesday, October 17 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Missouri – St. Louis.

Dunn (pictured), a senior from Annapolis, Missouri, is attending Mizzou on a full Sinquefield Scholarship from the Mizzou New Music Initiative.

He previously has received awards for his music from the Music Teachers National Association and the Missouri Composers Project, and was one of three Mizzou composers chosen last year to have his work read by musicians from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

You can read more about Dustin Dunn in the feature about him published in 2015 in Mizzou magazine.