Mizzou New Music Initiative gets $2.5 million gift
from Sinquefield Charitable Foundation

In a news conference on Thursday, February 21, University of Missouri officials announced that the Mizzou New Music Initiative will receive a gift of $2.5 million from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation to help continue the program over the next three years. The funds will help support all of MNMI's activities, including the costs of faculty…

Mizzou New Music Ensemble featured on new album from jazz pianist Rich Pellegrin

The Mizzou New Music Ensemble is featured on Down, the new album by jazz pianist and former Mizzou faculty member Rich Pellegrin that recently was released on the OA2 Records label. Recorded in 2014 in Seattle, WA and Columbia, MO, the album is Pellegrin's third as a bandleader for the label. It includes seven tracks…

Mizzou New Music Ensemble to perform works by Socolofsky, Kirsten, Dennehy, Christensen and Forte on Sunday, February 24 at Whitmore Recital Hall

The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will perform works by three visiting composers plus two world premieres by Mizzou students in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, February 24 at Whitmore Recital Hall, 135 Fine Arts Building on the Mizzou campus. Admission is free and open to the public. The program will feature “Don’t say a…

Annika Socolofsky visiting Mizzou for concert, residency

Composer and singer Annika Socolofsky is coming to Mizzou later this month for a residency and concert. During her visit, she will coach the Mizzou New Music Ensemble, make a presentation on her music to composition students, and give private lessons to selected composition majors. Socolofsky will conclude her residency by performing with the Ensemble…

St. Louis Symphony musicians to premiere new work by Stephanie Berg

Musicians from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will premiere a new work by Mizzou alumnae Stephanie Berg in a concert next month at Powell Hall in St. Louis. Berg's "Three Prayers" was commissioned by SLSO clarinetist Diana Haskell, and will be performed for the first time as part of of a program of chamber music…

Mizzou New Music Ensemble performs at 2019 MMEA Conference

Transient Canvas coming to Mizzou for residency, concert on Monday, February 4

The new music duo Transient Canvas will visit Mizzou next month for a residency and concert. They'll perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, February 4 at Whitmore Recital Hall, presenting a program of electroacoustic music by contemporary composers Brian Sears, Kirsten Volness, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Marissa Hickman, Dan VanHassel, and David Ibbett. The concert is free…

Missouri Composers Project selects four works for concert by Columbia Civic Orchestra, Columbia Chamber Choir on Sunday, March 10 at First Baptist Church

The Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI) has announced the selection of four winners in the 2019 Missouri Composers Project (MOCOP) competition. Now in its eighth year, MOCOP is a collaborative effort involving MNMI, the Columbia Civic Orchestra (CCO),…