Composer Aaron Perrine is coming to the University of Missouri in February for a residency and concert featuring the premiere of a new commissioned work he wrote for the Mizzou Wind Ensemble.

Perrine (pictured) will arrive in Columbia on Thursday, February 13. While he’s on campus, he’ll give lessons to composition students; make a presentation about his music; and coach the Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band, which will perform two of his older works at a concert later in the month.

His visit will conclude with a performance by the Wind Ensemble and All-Juniors Honor Band at 7:00 p.m. Monday, February 17 at the Missouri Theatre, at which the Ensemble, directed by Brian Silvey, will present the world premiere of Perrine’s new work “Stained with Light.”

Aaron Perrine is a Minnesota native who holds degrees from the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Minnesota, Morris, and currently is on the faculty at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

He has composed music in a variety of genres, and is noted especially for his works for concert and symphonic bands, twice winning the American Bandmasters Association Sousa/Ostwald Award for his compositions “Only Light” in 2015 and “Pale Blue on Deep” in 2013.

Perrine’s music for winds has been featured at numerous national, regional, all-state, state conference, and honor band concerts, and his works for saxophone also have received many notable performances. He also is an active conductor who has worked with a variety of honor bands.