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New works by three University of Missouri School of Music students were given their world premiere on Wednesday, March 26, in a concert by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra at the Touhill Performing Arts Center in St. Louis. SLSO Assistant Conductor Samuel Hollister led the performance.
Harry Gonzalez, a master’s student from Medellin, Colombia; Atticus Schlegel, a senior from St. Louis; and JT Wolfe, a senior from St. Joseph, MO, were selected to participate in the program through a collaboration between the SLSO and the Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI).
The pieces performed were Wolfe’s La Sal, Gonzalez’s Fragments of a Memory, and Schlegel’s Deer of Great Soul.
Each year, three composers are selected to write new works to be premiered by the SLSO. Their pieces are read by the Symphony during the fall semester, revised during the winter, and premiered in the spring. The program is funded by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.
In a review for the St. Louis American, Chris King praised each of the pieces and called the performance “a brief but engaging concert where some of the planet’s best musicians got to be the first orchestra to fully flesh out into public space what had mostly been inside the heads of young composers.”
You can read the full review here.
For more information on the collaboration between SLSO and MNMI, visit St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Collaborations | Mizzou New Music Initiative.
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