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Three composers associated with the Mizzou New Music Initiative are represented on a new album by the American Composers Orchestra.
Released August 21, 2026 on Presto Music’s Platoon label, 2023 EarShot Readings features works by Oswald Huỳnh, Daniel Sabzghabaei, and Brittany J. Green. Huỳnh’s Gia Đình, Green’s Rencontres, and Sabzghabaei’s (گر آتش بارد به پیکرم)Hommage à Khāleqī were recorded in New York City’s Tishman Auditorium at the SONiC Festival’s 31 st EarShot Readings. The performances were conducted by Tito Muñoz and developed with mentors Derek Bermel, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and Daniel Bernard Roumain.
Huỳnh received a Master of Music degree from the University of Missouri in 2022 and that year was a Resident Composer at the Mizzou International Composers Festival. He was named as a winner of the 2025-26 Rome Prize and a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition.
Sabzghabaei was an MICF Resident Composer in 2025.
Green’s music was performed by MICF Resident Ensemble and Grammy Award winner Alarm Will Sound at this year’s festival.
A 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist in music, mentor Mary Kouyoumdjian was a 2016 MICF Resident Composer, and in 2024 returned as a Distinguished Guest Composer.
EarShot Readings, operated in partnership with the American Composers Forum, New Music USA, and the League of American Orchestras, provides composers with professional working experiences with orchestras from across the Americas. ACO hosts EarShot Readings with its own orchestra in New York City each season, in addition to designing EarShot Readings with partner orchestras.
The ACO is a national discovery and development pipeline for new orchestral music, focused on bringing the full spectrum of American music to orchestral stages, providing a gateway to the orchestral composition and performance process, and amplifying the expressive power of orchestral music to enable a vibrant future for all Americans.
2023 Earshot Readings is available for download here.
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