Producer for Mizzou faculty members earns Grammy nomination

One of the nominees this year in the Grammy Awards' "Classical Producer of the Year" category has a Mizzou connection. Veteran producer Judith Sherman, a 12-time Grammy Award nominee and winner of the award for Classical Producer of the Year for 1993, 2007 and 2011, is nominated again for her work in 2018, including the…

Mizzou New Music Ensemble to perform works from MADSM competition, Mizzou and more on Sunday, December 2 at Whitmore Recital Hall

The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will perform four new student works plus two pieces from acclaimed contemporary composers in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, December 2 at Whitmore Recital Hall, 135 Fine Arts Building on the Mizzou campus. Admission is free and open to the public. Two of the student works were selected for…

Composer Nina C. Young coming to Mizzou for residency, concert

Composer Nina C. Young will visit Mizzou at the end of this month to coach the Mizzou New Music Ensemble and give a pre-concert talk before a performance of one of her works. Young (pictured), who is an assistant professor of composition and director of the electronic music studios at the University of Texas at…

Fall 2018 Student Composers Recital set for Monday, November 26 at Whitmore Recital Hall

The Fall 2018 edition of the University of Missouri School of Music’s Student Composers Recital will present new works written and performed by students at 7:30 p.m. Monday, November 26 at Whitmore Recital Hall on the Mizzou campus. Admission is free and open to the public. The program will include: "The Wooden Playground" by Nathan…

Ryan Jeschke, Daniel Vega named winners of MADSM Collegiate Composition Competition

The Missouri Association of Departments and Schools of Music (MADSM) and the Mizzou New Music Initiative have selected the winners in the first-ever MADSM Collegiate Composition Competition. The winning work in the Undergraduate category is “Gunkanjima” by Ryan Jeschke, a student at Truman State University,…

Composer Joseph Joubert to visit Mizzou for premiere of new commissioned work

Composer and pianist Joseph Joubert is coming to Mizzou at the end of this month for a residency that will include the world premiere performance of "Freedom's Plow," a new commissioned work written by Joubert for Mizzou's Concert Chorale. On Thursday, November 29, Joubert (pictured) will speak at a convocation of the music department, and…

Mizzou composers’ collaboration with St. Louis Symphony featured on HEC-TV’s “State of the Arts”

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's reading of new works by Mizzou composers is the subject of a feature story on the latest episode of HEC-TV's program "State of the Arts." The feature by reporter Paul Schankman includes an exclusive look at the private reading session held on Wednesday, October 31 at Powell Hall in St.…

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

The Mizzou New Music Initiative is inviting young composers from all across Missouri to take part in the 2019 Creating Original Music Project (COMP). Now in its 14th year, COMP is an annual statewide competition sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Music and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. COMP showcases new, original music from…