Documentary scored by Mizzou alumni is a YouTube hit

A science documentary with a musical score by two Mizzou alumni has proved to be a major hit with online viewers, this month passing one million views on YouTube. Living Soil, a documentary funded by the national not-for-profit Soil Health Institute, features music written by Haley Myers,…

Duo Cortona, Evan Chambers doing virtual residencies for Mizzou

While the current pandemic-related restrictions may be limiting some in-person interactions, Mizzou students still are getting opportunities to work with and learn from composers and performers from throughout the world of new music. For example, this month new music ensemble Duo Cortona and composer Evan Chambers both will take part in virtual residencies for MNMI.…

Mizzou’s 2021 Creating Original Music Project (COMP)
offers awards, cash prizes for Missouri student composers

At a time when live performances have become scarce, young composers still need opportunities to present their new works, which makes the Mizzou New Music Initiative's 2021 Creating Original Music Project (COMP) especially timely and relevant for…

Santiago Beis wins 2021 Sinquefield Composition Prize

The University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative have awarded the 2021 Sinquefield Composition Prize to Santiago Beis. Beis is a first-year graduate student working toward a master's degree in composition at Mizzou. He submitted “La sed y el Agua” (“Thirst and Water”), a work for piano and string orchestra,…

Mizzou International Composers Festival set for July 26 – 31, 2021;
applications for resident composers now open

The Mizzou New Music Initiative is accepting applications for resident composers to take part in the 2021 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF), which will take place starting Monday, July 26 through Saturday, July 31. Reprising their roles from the online-only 2020 edition of the MICF, Chen Yi and David T. Little (pictured) will serve as…

American Wild Ensemble to perform in concert
on Sunday, October 18 at Sinquefield Music Center

The American Wild Ensemble will perform in a concert presented by the Mizzou New Music Initiative at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, October 18 outside the Sinquefield Music Center on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. Titled “The American Aviatrix,” the program commemorates the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment by honoring the achievements…

Feature film scored by Mizzou alumnus Grant Fonda opening Friday, October 9

A feature film with a score composed by a Mizzou alumnus will open this month in movie theaters across the country. Pray: the Story of Patrick Peyton, directed by Jonathan Cipiti and scored by Grant Fonda, is set to hit theaters nationwide on Friday, October 9. The documentary tells the story of Patrick Peyton, an…

Carolina Heredia wins commission from Barlow Endowment

Mizzou assistant professor Carolina Heredia has won a commission for 2020 from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition. Heredia was one of 15 composers selected from among 286 applications this year to the Endowment's General and LDS commissioning programs, which will award grants totaling $83,000 to the winners. The Barlow Endowment was established in September…