July 16, 2018
Robert Morris to serve as guest composer for 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival; Chen Yi withdraws for medical reasons
Composer Chen Yi, who had been scheduled to be one of the distinguished guest composers later this month at the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival, has withdrawn from the festival due to medical reasons. In place of Chen, Robert Morris, composer and professor at the Eastman School of Music, has agreed to serve as a guest composer for the 2018 MICF. “We regret that Chen Yi is unable to participate in this year’s festival. She recently had surgery and though a full recovery is expected, it’s taking longer than originally anticipated,” said Stefan Freund, professor of…
July 16, 2018
Composers Festival spotlight: Missouri Clarinet Quartet
The Missouri Clarinet Quartet will make their Mizzou International Composers Festival debut as a part of the “Mizzou New Music” concert on Friday, July 27 at the Missouri Theatre. Founded in 2017 under the guidance of assistant teaching professor Wesley Warnhoff, the MCQ is committed “to community engagement and the expansion of the clarinet quartet repertoire.” The members of the quartet include Victoria Hargrove, a Mizzou alum now entering the DMA program at Michigan State University; music educator and Mizzou alum Erin Rhomberg; Andrew Mahonen, a Mizzou graduate student and teaching assistant; and Austin Wright, a graduate student…
July 12, 2018
Composers Festival spotlight: Viet Cuong
Resident composer Viet Cuong comes to the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival from Philadelphia, where he currently is studying in the Curtis Institute of Music‘s Artist Diploma program and finishing his PhD at Princeton University. Born in West Hills, CA and raised in Marietta, GA (near Atlanta), Cuong also holds an MFA from Princeton. He earned his bachelor and master of music degrees from the Peabody Institute at The Johns Hopkins University, where he won the Peabody Alumni Award for being valedictorian and the Gustav Klemm Award for excellence in composition. The piece Cuong has…
July 11, 2018
Composers Festival spotlight: Christine Burke
Like many contemporary composers, Christine Burke does more than write music. Burke, who’s one of the seven resident composers for the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival, also is a clarinetist and bandleader of the Christine Burke Ensemble, giving her a ready outlet for new musical ideas. Burke is a fellow Midwesterner, coming to the MICF from Iowa City, IA, where she earned her master’s degree from the University of Iowa and still resides. Previously, the Indiana native in 2014 got her bachelor of music degree in clarinet performance from Duquesne University. While in Pittsburgh, she was actively…
July 11, 2018
MICF on TV
The 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival now has a 30-second commercial running online, on central Missouri’s PBS affiliate, and on local and cable news in Columbia. The video was produced by Dale H. Lloyd working under the direction of Mizzou New Music Initiative managing director Jacob Gotlib. You can see the spot in the embedded window below.
July 10, 2018
Composers Festival spotlight: Oren Boneh
Originally from Denver, CO, resident composer Oren Boneh comes to the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival via California, where he currently is working on a PhD in composition at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Denver, and subsequently has studied at McGill University in Montreal, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and, with support from a Fulbright fellowship, in Germany at the Dresden Music Cognition Lab. For the MICF, Boneh has written a new work for Alarm Will Sound called “Unseen Beneath the Ice,” which will…
July 9, 2018
If you’re coming to Columbia…
If you’re planning on coming to Columbia for the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival, you can get advance tickets online for the three concerts being presented at the Missouri Theatre: Thursday, July 26: Alarm Will Sound Friday, July 27: Mizzou New Music Saturday, July 28: Seven World Premieres with Alarm Will Sound Also, you may find these links useful for planning and/or during your visit: Visitors information Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau University of Missouri Visitors Guide Columbia Regional Airport Vox magazine’s guide to Columbia…
June 28, 2018
2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival
complete schedule of events and ticket information
Here is the complete schedule of events and information on how to get tickets for the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival. The 2018 MICF begins on Monday, July 23 and continues through Saturday, July 28. Festival events will be held at the Fine Arts Building and Loeb Hall on the campus of the University of Missouri and at the Missouri Theatre in downtown Columbia, including: Monday, July 23 10:00 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Resident Composer Presentations: Amanda Feery, Igor Santos, and Viet Cuong Fine Arts Building Room 145 on the Mizzou campus Open to…