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…
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…
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…
Composers Festival Spotlight: Ian Dicke
Resident composer Ian Dicke comes to this year's Mizzou International Composers Festival from the University of California, Riverside, where he just completed his first year as an assistant professor of digital composition. A native of New Jersey, Ian earned degrees in music from the University of Texas at Austin…
Composers Festival Spotlight: Holly Harrison
Holly Harrison is the first-ever MICF resident composer to come from Australia, where she was was born and raised, and currently is studying for a Doctorate of Creative Arts in Composition at the University of Western Sydney. She previously graduated from the University's bachelor of music program with the…
Composers Festival Spotlight: Michael Schacter
Michael Schacter is one of eight resident composers at the 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival, and comes to Columbia from Ann Arbor, MI, where he currently is working towards a Ph.D. in music theory and composition at the University of Michigan. Originally from Massachusetts and an enthusiastic Red Sox fan,…
Zhou Long to serve as guest composer
for 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival;
Beat Furrer unable to attend for medical reasons
The Mizzou New Music Initiative announced today that Swiss composer Beat Furrer, who had been scheduled to be one of the guest composers later this month at the 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival, will be unable to attend the festival due to medical reasons. In place of Furrer, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long, Distinguished Professor…
Composers Festival Spotlight: Alarm Will Sound
It's been a busy year for Alarm Will Sound since the last Mizzou International Composers Festival. For starters, the MICF's resident ensemble (pictured) recently completed a year-long residency at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, performing there four times during the 2013-14 presenting season. The concerts at…