Composers Festival spotlight: Mizzou New Music Ensemble
Occupying their usual spot in the festival lineup, the Mizzou New Music Ensemble will be performing during the 2019 Mizzou International Composers Festival as part of Friday night's "Mizzou New Music" concert at the Missouri Theatre. Their portion of the evening's program will include works by the MICF's two distinguished guest composers - "The Blotting"…
Composers Festival spotlight: Kristina Wolfe
2019 MICF resident composer Kristina Wolfe describes herself as "a composer, wanderer, electronic musician, maker, and multi-instrumentalist." A native of Tampa, FL, Wolfe (pictured) currently is a composer and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Scholar working in sound archaeology exhibition and composition at the University of Huddersfield in the UK. She earned her PhD in multimedia and electronic…
Composers Festival spotlight: “0150719 by reference”
In addition to the expanded schedule of concerts celebrating the festival's tenth year, another first for the 2019 Mizzou International Composers Festival is "0150719 by reference," a generative eight-channel audio installation created specifically for the MICF by Kenneth Kirschner and Daniel Neumann. The installation will be open starting on Tuesday, July 23 and continuing through…
2019 MICF in the media
With this year's Mizzou International Composers Festival fast approaching, MNMI has been working to get the word out via local media. For starters, the "Mizzou Music" radio program, heard at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday evenings on Columbia's classical music station KMUC, has been airing a series of interviews with participants in this year's MICF. Composers interviewed…
Composers Festival spotlight: Eli Keszler
For this year's expanded edition of the Mizzou International Composers Festival, the Mizzou New Music Initiative is teaming up with Columbia-based experimental music organization Dismal Niche to present two free late-night concerts on Thursday, July 25 and Friday, July 26 after the performances at the Missouri Theatre. Friday's late-night concert will feature percussionist, composer, and…
Composers Festival spotlight: Aaron Mencher
Resident composer Aaron Mencher is representing the University of Missouri at this year's Mizzou International Composers Festival. Originally from Atlanta, GA, Mencher (pictured) received his bachelor's degree in music from Mizzou this year, and in the fall will begin studies for a master's in music at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD. For the MICF,…
Composers Festival spotlight: Nicole Murphy
Originally from Sydney, Australia, Nicole Murphy is only the second Australian to be a resident composer for the Mizzou International Composers Festival. (Holly Harrison, MICF '14, was the first.) Murphy (pictured) earned her PhD from the University of Queensland and is represented as an associate artist by the Australian Music Centre. Her music is published…
Composers Festival spotlight: Theo Chandler
Resident composer Theo Chandler comes to the 2019 Mizzou International Composers Festival by way of Houston, TX, where he currently is working on a doctorate of musical arts at the Rice University Shepherd School of Music. He's already had a busy summer, having served as composer in residence for the Maryland Wind Festival, held in…