March 5, 2017
Mizzou New Music Initiative seeks high school students for Missouri Summer Composition Institute
Mizzou’s Tom McKenney with COMP Camp students The Mizzou New Music Initiative is looking for Missouri high school students interested in music composition to attend this year’s Missouri Summer Composition Institute, which will be held from Sunday, June 18 through Saturday, June 24 on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. Known informally as “COMP Camp,” after MNMI’s annual Creating Original Music Project contest for student composers, the Institute is open to students entering grades 9-12 and entering college freshman. The week-long program offers young composers from across the state the opportunity to receive composition lessons from MU faculty,…
Oct. 25, 2016
Creating Original Music Project (COMP) offers awards, cash prizes for original music from Missouri student composers
From school bands to adjudicated contests, young musicians today have many outlets to demonstrate their instrumental prowess. For young composers, the opportunities to show their talents can be much harder to find, which is why the Mizzou New Music Initiative began the Creating Original Music Project (COMP). Now in its twelfth year, COMP is an annual statewide competition that showcases new, original music from Missouri student composers and songwriters in grades K-12, offering positive recognition and prizes, performance and educational opportunities, and more. Sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Music and the Sinquefield Charitable…
March 13, 2016
Creating Original Music Project to present award-winning works by Missouri student composers in concert on Saturday, April 16 in Columbia
Audio from the 2016 COMP Festival will stream live online on Saturday, April 16 From classical, jazz, and blues to folk, rock, and hip-hop, Missouri has a rich and varied musical history. The Show-Me State over the years has produced a long list of musical luminaries, from Scott Joplin, Virgil Thomson, and Burt Bacharach to Clark Terry, Chuck Berry, and Sheryl Crow, but what does the future hold? The answer could be in Columbia, where Mizzou’s Creating Original Music Project (COMP) will present performances of award-winning original works by young Missouri composers in grades K-12 at the 11th…
Nov. 15, 2015
Creating Original Music Project (COMP) to recognize original music
from Missouri student composers with awards, cash
2015 COMP award winnersFor ten years, the Mizzou New Music Initiative’s Creating Original Music Project (COMP) has encouraged the musical dreams and aspirations of hundreds of K-12 students across Missouri, offering positive recognition and prizes, performance and educational opportunities, and more. Some past winners of the annual statewide competition sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Music and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation have even gone on to earn to full college scholarships or launch professional careers in music. Now, heading into its second decade, COMP once again is looking for new, original music from student composers and songwriters…
April 5, 2015
MNMI, COMP featured on St. Louis Public Radio
Mizzou New Music Initiative managing director William Lackey, junior composition major Ben Colagiovanni and composer, clarinetist and Mizzou alum Stephanie Berg were guests this past Friday, April 3 on St. Louis Public Radio’s program “CityScape.” In the segment, they talked with host Steve Potter about the Creating Original Music Project, the annual statewide competition for Missouri student composers in grades K-12. The annual COMP Festival showcasing the original compositions of this year’s winners will take place on Saturday, April 18 at Whitmore Recital Hall on the Mizzou campus. Colagiovanni was a two-time COMP winner while a student…
March 16, 2015
Creating Original Music Project celebrates 10 years
of original works from Missouri student composers
with concert on Saturday, April 18
Multiple COMP winner HyunJun Yoo with Jeanne Sinquefield of the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation 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 18 in the Fine Arts Building on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia. Admission to the festival is free and open to the public. The junior division concert, featuring works from elementary and middle school winners, begins at 10:30 a.m., with the senior division…
Nov. 17, 2014
Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) celebrates tenth year of prizes, recognition for Missouri student composers
Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield with multiple C.O.M.P. winner HyunJun Yoo of Columbia 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 the University of Missouri School of Music and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation once again is looking for new, original music from student composers and songwriters in the Show-Me State. Information was mailed last month to music teachers across the state inviting students to participate in the 2015…
April 17, 2014
Listen to the 2014 C.O.M.P. Festival online
Emma Reinagel performs at the 2013 C.O.M.P. Festival 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 be there in person, you still can hear the performances of all of this year’s winning compositions from Missouri elementary, middle school and and high school students via the School of Music’s online audio streams. There are two streaming options available. You can listen via your web browser by…