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March 17, 2015

Creating Original Music Project celebrates 10 years
of original works from Missouri student composers
with concert on Saturday, April 18

Mizzou’s Creating Original Music Project (COMP) will mark 10 years of showcasing the works of Missouri student composers in grades K-12 with the 2015 COMP Festival, which will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Saturday, April…

Nov. 18, 2014

Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) celebrates tenth year of prizes, recognition for Missouri student composers

Over the past nine years, the Mizzou New Music Initiative’s Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P) has encouraged the musical dreams and aspirations of hundreds of K-12 students across Missouri. Now for its tenth year, the annual statewide competition sponsored by…

April 18, 2014

Listen to the 2014 C.O.M.P. Festival online

The ninth annual Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) Festival will take place starting at 10:30 a.m. this Saturday, April 19 at Whitmore Recital Hall on the Mizzou campus in Columbia. The concert is free and open to the public, but if you can't…

March 25, 2014

Creating Original Music Project concert to present award-winning works
from Missouri student composers on Saturday, April 19

New award-winning works by Missouri student composers will be performed at the 2014 Creating Original Music Project Festival, which will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Saturday, April 19 in the Fine Arts Building on the Mizzou campus. Admission to the…

Oct. 21, 2013

Ninth annual Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) competition
offers prizes, recognition for Missouri student composers

Whether it ends up being played on a synthesizer, a Stratocaster or by a symphony orchestra, every piece of music begins with an idea from a composer - and every composer needs a place…

May 14, 2013

Mizzou New Music Initiative in the news

In addition to the outstanding feature article about the Mizzou New Music Initiative in the May issue of St. Louis magazine linked here a few days ago, the MNMI and affiliated composers and musicians also have been the subjects of various other recent items in the media. * Composer, clarinetist and Mizzou alumna Stephanie Berg…

May 1, 2013

Mizzou New Music Initiative featured in St. Louis magazine

The May 2013 issue of St. Louis magazine includes a feature article by culture editor Stefene Russell about the Mizzou New Music Initiative. Russell’s piece offers a comprehensive look at MNMI, from the origins of the Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) eight years ago, right up until the present day. The print edition of the…

April 12, 2013

C.O.M.P. winners perform on KSDK’s Show Me St. Louis

Two of the winners in the 2013 Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) competition performed this past Thursday, April 11 on Show Me St. Louis, an entertainment news program that airs on NBC affiliate KSDK at 12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Menea Kefalov and Ande Siegel of Ladue Middle School were the first-place winners this year…