June 29, 2010

Spotlight on Francisco Cortez-Alvarez

The inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival will feature the world premieres of new works from eight resident composers selected to be part of the event from a group of more than 120 applicants from around the world. Here’s the first in a series of brief profiles of those composers: Pianist/composer Francisco Cortes-Alvarez (pictured) was born in Mexico City and received a degree in music composition with honorific mention and the Gabino Barreda Medal from the National School of Music (ENM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He currently is pursuing  a master’s of music…

June 28, 2010

Spotlight on Alarm Will Sound

The inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is fortunate to have Alarm Will Sound (pictured) as our resident ensemble. They’ll kick off the festival with a concert at the Missouri Theater and Center for the Arts on Monday, July 12, and will work with our eight emerging composers throughout the week, culminating in the world premiere of their new works at the concluding concert on Sunday, July 18. Their performances have been described as “equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity” by the London Financial Times and as “a…

June 28, 2010

About the Mizzou New Music Initiative

The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is just one part of the Mizzou New Music Initiative, which brings together a diverse array of programs intended to position the University of Missouri School of Music as a leading center in the areas of composition and new music. The Initiative is the direct result of the generous support of Dr. Jeanne and Mr. Rex Sinquefield, and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. The Sinquefields’ vision is to create an incubator for the composition and performance of new music, and to position Missouri as a major…

June 22, 2010

Tickets now on sale for inaugural
Mizzou New Music Summer Festival

Tickets are now on sale for the inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, which will be held Monday, July 12 through Sunday, July 18 in Columbia, MO. The weeklong series of events will include four public concerts, culminating in the world premieres of new works written by eight international composers and performed by the acclaimed new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, July 18 in the newly renovated Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts (MTCA), 203 S. Ninth St. in downtown Columbia. Other public performances at the MTCA…

June 22, 2010

Welcome!

Welcome to the blog of the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival. Here, you'll find information on the festival, the participating composers and musicians, the Mizzou New Music Initiative, and much more. The charter members of our blogging team are William J. "Billy" Lackey,  Admissions and Publicity Coordinator for the University of Missouri School of Music (and a composer himself) and Dean Minderman, a Mizzou alumnus, musician and music journalist based in St. Louis.  We'll add more contributors as we go, including live blogging during the festival from the eight emerging composers whose work will be featured this year. Please bookmark this site, or add our feed - https://master-7rqtwti-qufwqsvgrfbs4.us-4.platformsh.site/?feed=rss2 -  to your reader of choice!  If you have comments, suggestions or would like to get in touch for any other reason, please send an email to LackeyW@missouri.edu.

June 1, 2010

Hello world!

Mizzou New Music Summer Festival blog will start very soon!…