April 21, 2022
Mizzou New Music Ensemble featured at Dean Minderman Memorial Concert May 3, 2022 at Sheldon Concert Hall
The Mizzou New Music Initiative will honor longtime St. Louis music journalist and musician Dean Minderman at a memorial concert on Sunday, May 3rd at 8 p.m. at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis. The concert will feature the Mizzou New Music Ensemble performing three Sound of Art commissions written by Mizzou composition students in honor of Minderman, as well as two additional works, one by a current Mizzou student and another by a Mizzou alum. Support for the concert is provided by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. Tickets are $20 general admission and…
April 20, 2022
May 6th application deadline for the 2022 Missouri Summer Composition Institute
The 2022 Missouri Summer Composition Institute will once again be offered in person June 11-18 on the campus of the University of Missouri. The Summer Composition Institute offers an incredible opportunity for young Missouri composers to come together for one week of learning and interacting with other creative minds – and all accepted students will be able to participate FREE thanks to the generosity of the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. The institute is open to students entering grades 9-12 or preparing to enter their first year of college. Up to 16 composers will be selected to…
April 15, 2022
Mizzou New Music Ensemble’s April 24th performance to feature five world premieres
The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will continue its 2021-2022 concert series with a performance at 7:30 pm on Sunday, April 24, 2022 at the Sinquefield Music Center’s Sheryl Crow Hall on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia.. The concert is free and open to the public. For those unable to attend in person, the concert will be livestreamed on the MU School of Music YouTube channel. Members of the 2021-22 Mizzou New Music Ensemble, with Yoshiaki Onishi (third from front) and Stefan Freund (fifth from front) The Ensemble (pictured) will open the program with a performance of Conversación a…
April 14, 2022
2022 Creating Original Music Project Festival to showcase award-winning works from Missouri student composers on Saturday, April 23 at Mizzou
The winning composers in the 2022 Creating Original Music Project (COMP) competition will receive awards and have their compositions performed at the COMP Festival on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The event, which will take place in Sheryl Crow Hall at the Sinquefield Music Center, will be free to the public. The junior division concert, featuring works from elementary and middle school winners of this year’s competition, will take place from 11:30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. The senior division concert of music by high school winners will follow from 3:30 –…
April 7, 2022
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra to perform composition by Mizzou graduate student Oswald Huỳnh as part of 2022-2023 season
On March 30, 2022, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra announced that Gia Đình, composed by University of Missouri graduate student Oswald Huỳnh, will be performed at Powell Hall on Friday, March 3, 2023 at 7:30 PM and Saturday, March 4 at 10:30 AM as part of the Symphony’s 2022-2023 season. Gia Đình will be programmed along Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto No. 11 Hob. XVIII with pianist Peter Henderson, and Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 (“Rhenish”). Assistant Conductor Stephanie Childress will lead the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in the performances. Oswald Huynh Huỳnh writes, “Gia…
March 28, 2022
April 6th Sheldon Classics Concert to premiere composition by Mizzou School of Music student Emily Shaw
At 8 pm on Wednesday, April 6, the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis will present a Classics Concert featuring musicians of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) performing Felix Mendelssohn’sOctet, Richard Strauss’ Sonata for Violin and Piano, and The Sun Spins Out of Place to Warm You, a new work for violin and piano by Mizzou composition student Emily Shaw. Shaw’s composition is part of an ongoing initiative supported by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation and the Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI) to introduce new and emerging composers from Mizzou to St.
March 15, 2022
Sinquefield Charitable Foundation renews support for Mizzou New music Initiative programming with $3.4 million gift
In a convocation held at the Sinquefield Music Center at the University of Missouri School of Music on Thursday, March 3, 2022, the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation renewed its commitment to support the Mizzou New Music Initative (MNMI) with a gift of $3.4 million dollars. That commitment will help continue the program over the next three years. With this recent gift, the Foundation has contributed a total of more than $10 million to MNMI since it was founded in 2006 to provide continued support for all its various programs. That support includes the costs of faculty…
Feb. 24, 2022
Mizzou New Music Ensemble continues 2021-22 season with live performance at Sinquefield Music Center on February 27, 2022
The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will continue its 2021-2022 concert series with a performance at 7:30 pm on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The concert will take place on the University of Missouri Campus at the Sinquefield Music Center’s Sheryl Crow Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. For those unable to attend in person, the concert will be livestreamed on the MU School of Music YouTube channel. Members of the Mizzou New Music Ensemble, with Yoshiaki Onishi (third from front) and Stefan Freund (fifth from front) The Ensemble (pictured) will open the program…