Composers Festival spotlight: Takuma Itoh
As preparations continue for the official start of the Mizzou International Composers Festival on Monday, July 25, this will be the first of a series of brief profiles of the resident composers, distinguished guest composers, and musicians taking part in this year's MICF, including (whenever possible) samples of their music. Born in Japan, raised in…
If you’re coming to Columbia
If you’re planning on coming to Columbia for the 2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival, you can get advance tickets online for all three concerts, which are being presented again this year at the Missouri Theatre: Thursday, July 28: Alarm Will Sound Friday, July 29: Mizzou New Music Saturday, July 30: Eight World Premieres with Alarm…
Mizzou New Music Initiative awards postdoctoral fellowship to Phillip Sink
The Mizzou New Music Initiative and the University of Missouri School of Music have awarded the Initiative’s first-ever postdoctoral fellowship to composer Phillip Sink. Starting with the Fall 2016 semester, Sink (pictured) will teach classes in composition and electronic music at Mizzou, and also will begin a major research project to be completed during the…
Mizzou New Music Initiative seeks new managing director
The University of Missouri School of Music is looking for a new managing director for the Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI). The managing director is responsible for administering all of MNMI’s various programs, which include the Mizzou International Composers Festival, the Creating Original Music Project (COMP), the Missouri Composers Orchestra Project (MOCOP), and more. The…
Tickets for 2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival go on sale Friday, June 3
Tickets for the 2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF) will go on sale at 10:00 a.m. CDT on Friday, June 3. Hailed as “a vibrant inferno of creative energy” by the internationally syndicated radio program “Relevant Tones,” and praised for offering “kinetic excitement” by the hometown Columbia Daily Tribune,…
Stefan Freund’s “Cyrillic Dreams” to be performed by St. Louis Symphony in concert on Friday, April 29
The St. Louis Symphony once again will feature music from a Mizzou composer as part of their subscription season when they perform Stefan Freund’s "Cyrillic Dreams” in a concert at 8:00 p.m. Friday, April 29 at Powell Hall in St. Louis. Freund (pictured) is associate professor of composition and music theory at the University of…
Mizzou New Music Ensemble to present benefit performance of “The Sound of Chess”
The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will be the featured performers in "The Sound of Chess," a benefit concert at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, April 30 at the Kingside Diner, 4651 Maryland Ave in St Louis' Central West End. The Ensemble will perform three new works written by Mizzou student composers inspired by the game of chess:…
Student Composers Concert set for Sunday, April 24 at Whitmore Recital Hall
The spring 2016 edition of the University of Missouri School of Music's bi-annual Student Composers Concert will showcase new works written and performed by students at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 24 at Whitmore Recital Hall on the Mizzou campus. Admission is free for Mizzou students, faculty and staff with ID, $5 for the general public.…