July 16, 2018

Yoshi Onishi answers “5 Questions” from I Care If You Listen

The Mizzou New Music Initiative's new postdoctoral fellow Yoshiaki “Yoshi” Onishi is the subject of a "5 Questions" interview published last week by the new-music website I Care If You Listen. In the interview, Onishi (pictured) talks with ICIYL's Alexander Rothe about his compositional process and his ongoing project "Les Six Aspects du Néant" (“The…

July 12, 2018

Composers Festival spotlight: Viet Cuong

Resident composer Viet Cuong comes to the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival from Philadelphia, where he currently is studying in the Curtis Institute of Music's Artist Diploma program and finishing his PhD at Princeton University. Born in West Hills, CA and raised in Marietta, GA (near Atlanta), Cuong also holds an MFA from Princeton. He…

July 11, 2018

Composers Festival spotlight: Christine Burke

Like many contemporary composers, Christine Burke does more than write music. Burke, who's one of the seven resident composers for the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival, also is a clarinetist and bandleader of the Christine Burke Ensemble, giving her a ready outlet for new musical ideas. Burke is a fellow Midwesterner, coming to the MICF…

July 11, 2018

MICF on TV

The 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival now has a 30-second commercial running online, on central Missouri’s PBS affiliate, and on local and cable news in Columbia. The video was produced by Dale H. Lloyd working under the direction of Mizzou New Music Initiative managing director Jacob Gotlib. You can see the spot in the embedded…

July 11, 2018

Erin Hoerchler wins ASCAP Foundation scholarship

Mizzou alum Erin Marie Hoerchler is the winner of the 2018 ASCAP Foundation Frederick Loewe Scholarship. Hoerchler (pictured), who earned her bachelor of music degree in composition from Mizzou in 2017, is a composer, vocalist, and musical director with a particular interest in musical theater. She will begin work in September on a master of…

July 10, 2018

Composers Festival spotlight: Oren Boneh

Originally from Denver, CO, resident composer Oren Boneh comes to the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival via California, where he currently is working on a PhD in composition at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Denver, and subsequently has studied at McGill University in Montreal, the Royal Danish…

July 9, 2018

If you’re coming to Columbia…

If you’re planning on coming to Columbia for the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival, you can get advance tickets online for the three concerts being presented at the Missouri Theatre: Thursday, July 26: Alarm Will Sound Friday, July 27: Mizzou New Music Saturday, July 28: Seven World Premieres with Alarm Will Sound Also, you may…

June 28, 2018

2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival
complete schedule of events and ticket information

Here is the complete schedule of events and information on how to get tickets for the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival. The 2018 MICF begins on Monday, July 23 and continues through Saturday, July 28. Festival events will be held at the Fine Arts Building and Loeb Hall on the campus of the University of…