Aug. 31, 2012
“Conversations with Composers” podcast – Episode 103
Here’s the third installment in our series of “Conversations With Composers” podcasts recorded at this year’s Mizzou New Music Summer Festival. Episode 103 is the second and final part of a conversation including guest composer Donnacha Dennehy and resident composers Stephanie Berg, Brian Ciach, Charlie Piper and Asha Srinivasan. Give it a listen using the embedded player below:…
Aug. 29, 2012
“Conversations with Composers” podcast – Episode 102
Here’s another installment in our series of “Conversations With Composers” podcasts. Recorded during the 2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, episode 102 is the first part of a conversation among guest composer Donnacha Dennehy and resident composers Stephanie Berg, Brian Ciach, Charlie Piper and Asha Srinivasan. You can hear it in the embedded player below:…
Aug. 27, 2012
“Conversations with Composers” podcast – Episode 101
The Mizzou New Music Initiative’s “Conversations With Composers” podcasts offer an inside perspective from the composers who took part in the 2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, featuring candid discussions of their work, backgrounds, influences and processes; their experiences during the Festival; and much more. Episode 101 features guest composer Steven Stucky talking with resident composers Stylianos Dimou, Ted Goldman and Patrick Harlin. Check it out in the embedded player below:…
July 27, 2012
More Mizzou New Music Summer Festival press coverage
As the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival has progressed this week, we’ve seen some more coverage of the Festival in the press and online: * The Kansas City Star had a feature story about resident composer Stephanie Berg, who grew up in the KC suburb of Parkville. * The Columbia Daily Tribune‘s Art Axis blog published interviews that reporter Aarik Danielsen conducted with guest composers Donnacha Dennehy and Steven Stucky. * Violist Nadio Sirota, who’s a substitute player this week with the Festival’s resident ensemble Alarm Will Sound, has written about her…
July 25, 2012
Behind the scenes with Alarm Will Sound
Before the start of the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, resident ensemble Alarm Will Sound spent a week rehearsing at the Sinquefield Reserve in mid-Missouri. While they did have time to pose for a photographic homage to George Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte” (pictured), there was a lot of hard work, too, as you can see in these photo sets posted to AWS’ Facebook page: . Alarm Will Sound rehearsals, Day 1 Alarm Will Sound rehearsals, Day 2 Alarm Will Sound rehearsals, Day 3 Alarm Will Sound…
July 25, 2012
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter
As the 2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival progresses this week, you can keep up with everything that’s going on by following us on Facebook and Twitter. The Missouri New Music Facebook page has behind-the-scenes photos, links to media coverage of the Festival, and much more. To get updates from the page in your Facebook news feed, go to http://www.facebook.com/moNEWmusic and click the “Like” button near the top. Meanwhile, we’re also posting frequent updates, schedule information, and relevant links to the Festival’s Twitter account. You can receive all the latest updates by following us at http://twitter.com/mizzounewmusic.
July 23, 2012
Mizzou New Music in the News
If you’ve missed some of the recent coverage of the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival in the news media, here’s your chance to catch up. * On Sunday, the Columbia Daily Tribune published a thoughtful and comprehensive preview story about the Festival by Aarik Danielsen. * The St. Louis Beacon last week had a nice feature story about the Festival, written by Neel Thakkar. * Stephanie Berg, who recently earned her master’s degree at Mizzou and is one of the resident composers for this year’s Festival, was featured in last week’s issue of…
July 20, 2012
Summer Festival Spotlight: Charlie Piper
Completing the international contingent at this year’s Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is resident composer Charlie Piper, who’s from London, England. Born in 1982, Piper (pictured) completed his master’s degree with distinction at the Royal College of Music and currently is doing doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music. His awards include the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and the 2007 prize at the 13th International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn. Piper also was a New Music Associate at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge from 2008 to 2010. Piper’s music has been has been broadcast on…