Nov. 15, 2018

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…

Nov. 14, 2018

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.…

Oct. 22, 2018

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…

Oct. 15, 2018

Mizzou welcoming composer Andrew List for residency next week

The School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative will welcome composer Andrew List to Columbia for a residency next Thursday, October 25 and Friday, October 26. While he's on campus, List, who's a professor of composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston, will make a presentation on his music; give private composition…

Oct. 15, 2018

Tenth annual Mizzou International Composers Festival set for July 22-27, 2019; applications for resident composers now open

The Mizzou New Music Initiative is accepting applications for resident composers to take part in the tenth annual Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF), which will be held Monday, July 22 through Saturday, July 27, 2019 on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia. In celebration of the festival's tenth year, Donnacha Dennehy and…

Oct. 12, 2018

Yoshiaki Onishi to receive 2018 Fromm Commission

Mizzou New Music Initiative post-doctoral fellow Yoshiaki "Yoshi" Onishi has been named a recipient of a 2018 Fromm Commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. Founded by Paul Fromm, a major patron of contemporary music who lived from 1906 to 1987, the Fromm Music Foundation is now in its 62nd year, having been…

Oct. 4, 2018

Show Me Opera to premiere Hans Bridger Heruth’s “A Certain Madness” on Friday, November 9

Show Me Opera will premiere "A Certain Madness," a new chamber opera by Mizzou senior Hans Bridger Heruth, on Friday, November 9 at the Rhynsburger Theatre. Tickets for the performance, which also will include selected scenes from a wide range of operatic repertoire, are $5 and can be purchased online or at the door. Heruth…

Oct. 1, 2018

Niko Schroeder wins 2019 Sinquefield Composition Prize

The University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative have awarded the 2019 Sinquefield Composition Prize to Niko Schroeder. Schroeder (pictured) is in his first year of study for a master's degree in composition at Mizzou. He submitted “genealogy I,” a work written for piano, violin, and cello, to the competition…