July 20, 2018

Composers Festival spotlight: Gemma Peacocke

Over the past nine years, the Mizzou International Composers Festival has had portfolios submitted from all over the world, and this year, resident composer Gemma Peacocke became the first New Zealander ever to be part of the MICF. Now living in the USA and working toward a PhD at Princeton University, Peacocke grew up in…

July 19, 2018

Composers Festival spotlight: Mizzou New Music Ensemble

As has become tradition over the past nine years, the Mizzou New Music Ensemble will be performing during the Mizzou International Composers Festival as part of Friday night's "Mizzou New Music" concert at the Missouri Theatre. Their portion of the evening's program will include works by the MICF's two distinguished guest composers - "Portraits and…

July 19, 2018

2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival to be broadcast, audio streamed live on Classical 90.5 FM

For the first time ever, all three concerts of the Mizzou International Composers Festival will be broadcast and audio streamed "live" by Classical 90.5 FM. In mid-Missouri, listeners can tune in to the broadcasts at 90.5 FM, while anyone anywhere in the world with an Internet connection can access the live stream at muclassical.org. All…

July 18, 2018

Composers Festival spotlight: Alex Mincek

The Mizzou New Music Initiative is pleased to welcome Alex Mincek as one of the two distinguished guest composers for this year's Mizzou International Composers Festival. In addition to composing, New York-based Mincek also is the saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and artistic director of the Wet Ink Ensemble, a contemporary music group he founded in 1998.…

July 17, 2018

Composers Festival spotlight: Douglas Osmun

The University of Missouri's representative among this year's group of resident composers at the Mizzou International Composers Festival is Douglas Osmun, who recently earned his M.M. in composition from Mizzou. Originally from Zeeland, MI, Osmun previously received his bachelor's degree in music from Western Michigan University, where he was named a Beulah and Harold McKee…

July 16, 2018

Composers Festival spotlight: Amanda Feery

If there were a prize for "longest distance traveled to take part in the Mizzou International Composers Festival," resident composer Amanda Feery would be the winner for 2018, coming to Columbia all the way from Dublin, Ireland. Originally from County Offaly in Ireland, Feery recently moved back to her home country after completing her PhD…

July 16, 2018

Robert Morris to serve as guest composer for 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival; Chen Yi withdraws for medical reasons

Composer Chen Yi, who had been scheduled to be one of the distinguished guest composers later this month at the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival, has withdrawn from the festival due to medical reasons. In place of Chen, Robert Morris, composer and professor at the Eastman School of Music, has agreed to serve as a…

July 16, 2018

Composers Festival spotlight: Missouri Clarinet Quartet

The Missouri Clarinet Quartet will make their Mizzou International Composers Festival debut as a part of the "Mizzou New Music" concert on Friday, July 27 at the Missouri Theatre. Founded in 2017 under the guidance of assistant teaching professor Wesley Warnhoff,  the MCQ is committed "to community engagement and the expansion of the clarinet quartet…