Spotlight on Stefan Freund

Cellist and composer Stefan Freund is a big part of the Mizzou New Music Initiative. As associate professor of composition and music theory, Freund teaches young composers at Mizzou and directs the Creating Original Music Project (COMP). He'll be busy during the inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, too, both as a teacher and as a…

Alarm Will Sound’s Alan Pierson interviewed by Columbia Daily Tribune

The Columbia Daily Tribune's Aarik Danielsen continues his coverage of the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival today via an interview with Alarm Will Sound artistic director, conductor and keyboardist Alan Pierson (pictured). You can read the interview posted on the paper's Art Axis blog here.

Last chance for Festival passes

The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival opens tonight, which means you have only a few more hours to purchase Festival passes, good for admission to all four concerts at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts. The cost of the four-concert pass is $35 for adults, $20 for students. Single tickets are priced at $10…

Mizzou New Music Summer Festival on Sequenza21

The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival got a nice mention Sunday on Sequenza21, a leading website for the contemporary classical music community.  Editor Steve Layton offered good wishes, mentioned all of the Festival's guest performers and composers and our eight resident composers, and even linked to this blog. You can read his post about the…

Spotlight on W. Thomas McKenney

As the Mizzou faculty member charged with overseeing the Festival, W. Thomas "Tom" McKenney has been involved in the event since its inception. During the next week, his task will be even more hands-on, as he works with the Festival's eight resident composers, takes part in faculty presentations, and more. McKenney, who is professor of…

Amy Beth Kirsten featured in New Haven Register

Mizzou New Music Summer Festival resident composer Amy Beth Kirsten is the subject of a feature story published today in the New Haven (CT) Register. The article by the Register's arts editor Donna Doherty also includes a short video of Kirsten talking about the Festival and her writing process. You can read the story and…

Spotlight on Edie Hill

Here's another in our series of profiles of the resident composers taking part in this year's Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: The most experienced among the 2010 Festival's eight resident composers, New York City native Edie Hill (pictured) earned a bachelor’s degree in music composition and piano performance at Bennington College, where she studied with…

Spotlight on Martin Bresnick

We are honored to have Martin Bresnick as one of the guest composers and instructors who will work with the eight resident composers taking part in the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival. Bresnick (pictured) was born in New York City and educated at the High School of Music and Art, the University of Hartford, Stanford…