July 16, 2017
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 the flagship group of the Mizzou New Music Initiative, collaborating with student, faculty, and visiting composers throughout the year to perform a variety of new works. The Ensemble’s members for the 2016-17 season are Victoria Hargrove, clarinet; Daniel Keeler, cello;…
July 15, 2017
Composers Festival spotlight: DRAX
DRAX, the duo of percussionist Megan Arns and saxophonist Leo Saguiguit, will return to the Mizzou International Composers Festival this year as guest artists for the “Mizzou New Music” concert on Friday, July 28 at the Missouri Theatre. They’ll perform “Where Are Our Mothers/We Don’t Have Enough Time” by 2011 MICF resident composer Steve Snowden, and “Tantrums,” a world premiere that they commissioned from 2012 MICF resident composer Asha Srinivasan. Formed in fall 2014 to explore the existing repertoire for saxophone and percussion duo and to commission new works, DRAX (pictured)…
July 14, 2017
2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival
schedule of events and ticket information
Here is the complete schedule of events and information on how to get tickets for the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival. The 2017 MICF begins on Monday, July 24 and continues through Saturday, July 29. Festival events will be held at the Fine Arts Building, Loeb Hall, and Whitmore Recital Hall on the campus of the University of Missouri and at the Missouri Theatre in downtown Columbia, including: Monday, July 24 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Resident Composer Presentations: Carolina Heredia, Amadeus Regucera, and Charles Peck Fine Arts Building Room 145 on…
July 14, 2017
Composers Festival spotlight: Clare Glackin
Resident composer Clare Glackin comes to the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival from the West Coast via Houston, Texas, where she recently graduated with an MM degree from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. A native of Mount Vernon, Washington, Glackin (pictured) previously earned a BM from the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where she was named a Discovery Scholar and Outstanding Graduate of the composition program. Her primary teachers have been Stephen Hartke, Frank Ticheli, Pierre Jalbert and Richard Lavenda. She also attended the Aspen Music Festival and School in the…
July 13, 2017
Composers Festival spotlight: Aaron Parker
Aaron Parker is another of the resident composers helping to put the “international” in this year’s Mizzou International Composers Festival, coming to Columbia all the way from England. Parker currently is working toward a masters in experimental music at Brunel University in London, and, reflecting his continuing interest in teaching as well as composition, also serves as assistant director of music at Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire. A native of Manchester, Parker (pictured) previously completed a BMus in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, studying with Gary Carpenter and Larry…
July 11, 2017
Composers Festival spotlight: Carolina Heredia
Born in Córdoba, Argentina, Carolina Heredia is the first resident composer originally from South America to take part in the Mizzou International Composers Festival. Heredia (pictured) has just completed her doctorate in musical arts at the University of Michigan, studying with Michael Daugherty, Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, and Erik Santos. (Interestingly, while being the first from South America, she’s also the latest in a series of Michigan grads to serve as MICF resident composers, including Patrick Harlin (2012), Elizabeth Kelly (2013), Greg Simon (2013), Michael Schachter (2014), Ian Dicke (2014),…
July 10, 2017
Composers Festival spotlight: Henry Breneman Stewart
The University of Missouri’s representative among the eight resident composers for this year’s Mizzou International Composers Festival is Henry Breneman Stewart, who just completed a master’s degree in composition at Mizzou. While at Mizzou, Stewart (pictured) has composed works for the Mizzou New Music Ensemble, Columbia Civic Orchestra, University Singers and more, and served as the “composer on call” for the Mizzou New Music Initiative’s Composer Connection distance-learning program. Most notably, he was the winner of the 2016 Sinquefield Composition Prize – the university’s top honor for a student composer –…
July 9, 2017
If you’re coming to Columbia
If you’re planning on coming to Columbia for the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival, you can get advance tickets online for the three concerts being presented at the Missouri Theatre: Thursday, July 27: Alarm Will Sound Friday, July 28: Mizzou New Music Saturday, July 29: Eight World Premieres with Alarm Will Sound (The “Music of MICF Alumni & More” concert on Monday, July 24 at Whitmore Recital Hall is free and open to the public, with general admission seating available on a “first-come, first-served” basis.) Also, you may find these links useful…