July 19, 2014

Composers Festival Spotlight: Christopher Weiss

2014 MICF resident composer Christopher Weiss may have been born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and grown up in the northeast, but as it turns out, his musical beginnings have a connection to the Show-Me State. His paternal grandfather, a fisheries biologist here in Missouri, was an amateur violin-maker who…

July 18, 2014

Composers Festival Spotlight: José Martínez

Resident composer José Martínez is representing the University of Missouri and the Mizzou New Music Initiative at this year's MICF. Originally from Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, José earned his diploma at the Conservatory of Music at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and currently is studying for…

July 18, 2014

Composers Festival Spotlight: Mizzou New Music Ensemble

One week from tonight, the Mizzou New Music Ensemble will take the stage at the Missouri Theatre as part of the "Mizzou New Music" concert of the 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival. Comprised of graduate students on scholarship, the Ensemble is directed by faculty composer and Alarm…

July 17, 2014

Composers Festival Spotlight: Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang

Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang is another of the resident composers helping to put the "international" into this year's Mizzou International Composers Festival. A native of Taiwan, Ashley comes to the MICF via the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she's studying for a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Ashley…

July 17, 2014

Composers Festival Spotlight: Nicholas Omiccioli

Although this year's Mizzou International Composers Festival is in one sense the most international to date, with resident composers who were born in Australia, Colombia, South Korea and Taiwan in addition to the USA, it's also the first MICF with two resident composers currently living in Missouri. One is…

July 16, 2014

Composers Festival Spotlight: Prometheus

Prometheus: An American Vocal Consort will be the guest performers for the 2014 MICF's "Mizzou New Music" concert on Friday, July 25 at the Missouri Theatre. The 12-member ensemble "aims to inspire, enlighten, heal, and share through intimate performances of blazingly communicative a cappella music from the renaissance to the brightest examples of music from…

July 16, 2014

2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival to include free events

In addition to the ticketed concerts at the Missouri Theatre, the 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival once again will include a number of events that are free of charge. All the presentations by the Festival’s guest, resident and faculty composers are free and open to the public, and will take place in Room 145 of…

July 15, 2014

Composers Festival Spotlight: Texu Kim

A native of South Korea, 2014 MICF resident composer Texu Kim currently is pursuing a doctorate in composition with minors in electronic music and music theory at Indiana University, where he also serves as an associate instructor in music theory. Before coming to the USA, Texu earned bachelor’s and…