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Here is some recent media coverage of the Mizzou New Music Initiative, its faculty, and students.
Trent Fitzsimmons, whose composition Equinox Serenade, will receive its world premiere at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis on Thursday, February 5, was interviewed on the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra‘s St. Louis Stories blog. You can read the interview here: Five Questions with Mizzou Composer Trent Fitzsimmons
Mizzou’s Maneater wrote about two University of Missouri Music Department faculty members, Stefan Freund and Bill Kalinkos, who are also members of the new music chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound. AWS received two nominations for this year’s Grammy Awards. You can read that piece here: 2026 Grammy nominee Alarm Will Sound features two Mizzou faculty members
The Show Me Mizzou newsletter also wrote about Freund, Kalinkos, MNMI, and Alarm Will Sound. You can read it here: School of Music faculty, members of Grammy-nominated ensemble, are helping make Missouri a leader in new music
St. Louis radio station Classic 107.3’s Kathy Lawton Brown interviewed MNMI Artistic Director Stefan Freund about the program, MNMI’s longtime collaboration with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Alarm Will Sound’s Grammy nominations. You can listen to the interview here: Premiere Performances with the Mizzou New Music Initiative
The Columbia Daily Tribune wrote about MNMI’s worldwide impact. You can read the article here: Mizzou music students take their new works to stages worldwide
A number of articles have spotlighted the Grammy Award won by Alarm Will Sound, which features Mizzou faculty members Stefan Freund and Bill Kalinkos:
Nonesuch Records: Alarm Will Sound Wins GRAMMY Award for Donnacha Dennehy’s ‘Land of Winter’
Columbia Missourian: Mizzou professors win Grammy for Alarm Will Sound ensemble
KOMU (Columbia): Two University of Missouri music professors win Grammy Awards
KRCG (Jefferson City): Two University of Missouri faculty win a Grammy
KTVI (St. Louis) and Yahoo News: Two Mizzou faculty members win Grammy Award
Alarm Will Sound press release
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