FINAL REMINDER! May 6th application deadline for the 2022 Missouri Summer Composition Institute

FINAL REMINDER! The deadline for applications to attend the 2022 Missouri Summer Composition Institute is this Friday, May 6, 2022! Click HERE to access the online application page. The 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…

May 11 Sheldon Concert Hall Performance features world premiere of string quartet by Mizzou composer María Laura Disandro

On Wednesday, May 11 at 8 p.m., The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis will present the final “Sheldon Classics” performance of the 2021-22 season. Violinist and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra assistant concertmaster Erin Schreiber will lead a string quartet featuring fellow Symphony members violinist Shawn Weil, violist Leonid Plashinov-Johnson, and cellist Bjorn Ranheim. The…

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…

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…

Composer Jennifer Jolley’s Mizzou residency scheduled for April 26-29, 2022

Jennifer Jolley, a member of the composition faculty at Texas Tech University’s School of Music, will be in Columbia as composer-in-residence at the University of Missouri School of Music from Tuesday, April 26 through Friday, April 29, 2022. Jolley’s residency is led by Dr. Brian Silvey, Mizzou's Director of…

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…

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.…

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…