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…

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…

Composers Festival spotlight: Dan Visconti

Dan Visconti, one of the two distinguished guest composers at the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival, is known both for his music and for his work as a speaker, writer, and activist seeking "to address social issues through music by re-imagining the arts as a form of cultural and civic…

Robert Sirota to discuss “Three Nocturnes” in pre-concert talk on Thursday, July 27

Composer Robert Sirota will discuss his new work "Three Nocturnes" in a pre-concert talk before Alarm Will Sound's world premiere performance of it for the Mizzou International Composers Festival on Thursday, July 27 at the Missouri Theatre. Sirota's talk will begin at 7:00 p.m., and the concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Sirota (pictured) will be…

Composers Festival spotlight: Eli Lara

Cellist Eli Lara will make her Mizzou International Composers Festival debut this year, performing as part of the "Mizzou New Music" concert on Friday, November 28 at the Missouri Theatre. Lara (pictured) joined the Mizzou faculty last fall as assistant professor of cello and the newest member of the Esterhazy Quartet. For the MICF, she'll…

Composers Festival spotlight: Charles Peck

It's been a busy year so far for Charles Peck. In addition to being one of the eight resident composers for the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival, in the past two months he was selected for the Minnesota Orchestra’s Composers Institute, and also won the Boston New Music Initiative's annual commissioning competition. Just this week,…

Composers Festival spotlight: Selim Göncü

Born in Turkey and educated in Hungary and Austria, Selim Göncü is one of four resident composers at the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival who originally comes from outside the USA. He currently is pursuing a PhD in composition at University of California, Berkeley, studying with Franck Bedrossian and Ken Ueno, and the Bay Area…

Composers Festival spotlight: Mizzou New Music Ensemble

The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will be the featured performers in the Mizzou International Composers Festival's “Mizzou New Music” concert on Friday, July 28 at the Missouri Theatre. Comprised of graduate students on scholarship, the Ensemble (pictured) is directed by professor of composition, faculty composer, and Alarm Will Sound member Stefan Freund. They serve as…