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…

If you’re coming to Columbia…

If you’re planning coming to Columbia for the 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival, you can get advance tickets online for all three concerts, which will be presented again this year at the Missouri Theatre: Thursday, July 24: Alarm Will Sound Friday, July 25: Mizzou New Music Saturday, July 26: Eight World Premieres Also, you may…

Tickets now on sale for 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival
concerts on July 24, 25 & 26 at Missouri Theatre

Tickets are now on sale for the 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival’s concerts on Thursday, July 24; Friday, July 25; and Saturday, July 26. Celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2014, the Mizzou International Composers Festival will take place starting Monday, July 21 through Saturday, July 26 in Columbia.…

Mizzou composers, New Music Ensemble
develop new works inspired by Forest Park

Forest Park in St. Louis is the site of all sorts of musical performances, from the sounds of Broadway at the Muny to the St. Louis Symphony's annual concert on Art Hill to the rock, pop and hip-hop of LouFest, and more. Now, the park itself has become the subject of music, as four Mizzou…

Oratorio premiere draws media attention

The impending premiere this week of Stefan Freund's Civil War oratorio is drawing plenty of attention from Columbia media. Last week, Freund was interviewed by Trevor Harris of KBIA, and on Sunday, the Columbia Tribune published a feature story by Amy Wilder previewing the production. Mizzou's news service also had a preview story about the…

Listen to the 2014 C.O.M.P. Festival online

The ninth annual Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) Festival will take place starting at 10:30 a.m. this Saturday, April 19 at Whitmore Recital Hall on the Mizzou campus in Columbia. The concert is free and open to the public, but if you can't…