Aug. 31, 2017

Mizzou faculty ensemble ZouM to perform Friday, September 8 in Columbia and Saturday, September 9 in St. Louis

The Mizzou faculty collective ZouM will showcase new music from six living composers with performances next weekend in Columbia and St. Louis. They'll play at 7:30 p.m. Friday, September 8 at Whitmore Recital Hall on the MU campus, then travel to St. Louis for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 9 at Washington University's…

Aug. 22, 2017

St. Louis Symphony musicians to read works by Mizzou composers

Three student composers from the University of Missouri School of Music will get a chance this academic year to have their orchestral works read, critiqued, and then played again by musicians from the St. Louis Symphony. Under the auspices of the Mizzou New Music Initiative, student composers Dustin Dunn, Aaron Mencher, and Douglas Osmun (pictured)…

Aug. 4, 2017

A look back at the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival

July 24, 2017

Composers Festival spotlight: Georg Friedrich Haas

Georg Friedrich Haas, one of the two distinguished guest composers at the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival, is known and respected internationally as one of the major European composers of his generation. Considered to be a leading exponent of "spectral music" and sometimes compared to György Ligeti for his use of microtonality, Haas has lectured…

July 23, 2017

MICF in the news

With the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival set to start on Monday, July 24, the MICF has been in the news. The website I Care If You Listen, which has an international following among composers, musicians, and new music enthusiasts, offered extensive coverage of the festival with "5 Questions for Stefan Freund," which included several…

July 22, 2017

Composers Festival spotlight: Christopher Mayo

A native of Toronto, Christopher Mayo is the first Canadian to be a resident composer for the Mizzou International Composer Festival. A composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and electronic music, Mayo (pictured) received his bachelor of music degree with honors at the University of Toronto, where he was awarded the Glenn Gould Composition Prize and…

July 21, 2017

Composers Festival spotlight: Amadeus Regucera

Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Amadeus Regucera is (along with Clare Glackin and Selim Göncü) one of three resident composers at this year's Mizzou International Composers Festival with a West Coast connection. A native Californian, he earned his B.A. in music in 2006 from the University of California, San Diego and last year…

July 21, 2017

MICF on TV

The 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival has two different video spots running online, on central Missouri's PBS affiliate, and on local and cable news in Columbia. The videos were produced by Michael Boles and Nicholas Barwick of Mizzou's Academic Support Center and by Dale H. Lloyd, working under the direction of Mizzou New Music Initiative…