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…
July 6, 2017
Missouri Summer Composition Institute featured in Columbia Missourian
MNMI’s Summer Composition Institute, held last month on the Mizzou campus, was the subject of a feature story in the Columbia Missourian. The Summer Composition Institute, often referred to as “COMP Camp” or “Summer COMP,” brings together a select group of high school composers from around the state for a week of intensive instruction, culminating in a concert featuring new works written during the week by the campers. In the article “Young composers create music in just one week,” Missourian reporter Katherine Herrick explained what COMP Camp is all about and interviewed several campers, including Holden Franklin, a…
June 29, 2017
Mizzou International Composers Festival adds free concert on Monday, July 24
The Mizzou International Composers Festival has added a free concert to this year’s schedule. “Music of MICF Alumni & More” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, July 24 at Whitmore Recital Hall in the Fine Arts building on the Mizzou campus. The concert will feature members of the festival’s resident ensemble Alarm Will Sound performing chamber works with instrumentation ranging from mixed quintet to solos with electronics. They’ll play music by three past MICF resident composers – David Biedenbender (2011), Ian Dicke (2014) and Steven Snowden (2011) – plus a piece by…