July 10, 2010
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 Vivian Fine. She earned her master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota with principal composition teacher Lloyd Ultan, and also has studied extensively with Libby Larsen. Currently, Hill serves as composer-in-residence at The Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minn. and lives…
July 10, 2010
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 University, and the Akademie für Musik in Vienna. His principal teachers of composition included György Ligeti, John Chowning, and Gottfried von Einem. He is presently Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the Composition Department at the Yale School of Music,…
July 9, 2010
Spotlight on Zhou Juan
Here’s another in our series of profiles of the resident composers taking part in this year’s Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: A native of Sichuan, China, Zhou Juan (pictured) was raised in Kelamayi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Composition, studying with Guo Wenjing. In 2007 she was named the first Edgar Snow Scholar from CCOM and began doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City with Zhou Long, Paul Rudy, Chen Yi and James Mobberly, ultimately…
July 9, 2010
More news coverage of Mizzou New Music Summer Festival
The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is the subject of two more stories published yesterday by Columbia’s newspapers. The Missourian‘s Mallory Benedict wrote a story about the Festival highlighting the contribution of Thomas McKenney, MU professor of composition and music theory. McKenney’s new piece “Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird” (“loosely inspired” by a Wallace Stevens poem) will receive its world premiere at the Festival’s opening concert on Monday, July 12 at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts. You can read that article online here. Also, the Tribune‘s Aarik Danielsen continues his extensive coverage…
July 9, 2010
Mizzou New Music Initiative on Facebook, Twitter
In addition to this blog, the Festival website, and the main website for the Mizzou New Music Initiative, we’re also on Facebook and Twitter. You’ll find our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/moNEWmusic. If you’re a Facebook member, click on the “Like” button, and you’ll get updates from the page as part of your Facebook news feed. You can follow the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival’s Twitter feed at: http://twitter.com/MizzouNewMusic.
July 9, 2010
Spotlight on Jeremy Podgursky
Here’s another in our series of profiles of the resident composers taking part in this year’s Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: Jeremy Podgursky (pictured) is a composer and performer of acoustic and electro-acoustic concert music who originally is from Louisville, KY. He currently lives in Bloomington, IN, where he has a Jacobs School of Music doctoral fellowship (D.M.) at Indiana University. Podgursky has studied acoustic composition with Don Freund, Steve Rouse and Marc Satterwhite, and electronic music with John Gibson and Alicyn Warren. After completing his masters degree, Podgursky taught music theory, aural skills and private…
July 9, 2010
Spotlight on Derek Bermel
The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is privileged to have Derek Bermel (pictured) as one of the guest composers and instructors working with our eight resident composers this year. Described by the Toronto Star as an “eclectic with wide open ears” and by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as “one of America’s finest young composers”, Bermel has been widely hailed for his creativity, theatricality, and virtuosity. His works draw from a rich variety of musical genres, including classical, jazz, pop, rock, blues, folk, and gospel. From 2006 to 2009 Bermel was Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the American…
July 8, 2010
If you’re coming to Columbia…
If you’re coming to Columbia to attend the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, you may find some of these links useful: Visitors information: Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau Columbia Regional Airport Hotels in Columbia “Virtual tour” of Columbia I Heart Columbia Vox Magazine’s guide to Columbia restaurants Mid-Missouri Dining Guide Media: Columbia Tribune Columbia Missourian Columbia area radio stations KOMU-TV (NBC) KMIZ-TV (ABC) KRCG-TV (CBS) National Weather Service forecast for Boone…