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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

July 8, 2010

Spotlight on Kirk Trevor

The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is fortunate to have Maestro Kirk Trevor as one of our guest artists in 2010. Trevor (pictured) will conduct the Festival's "Composers That Rock" concert featuring pianist Lisa Moore on Thursday, July 15, but audiences in Columbia have known him since the year 2000 as the conductor and music…

July 6, 2010

Spotlight on Paul Dooley

Here's another in our series of profiles of the resident composers at the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: Paul M. Dooley (pictured) is a composer, pianist, and percussionist currently working for his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Michigan, where he is the Graduate Student Instructor in Electronic Music. He was born…