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…
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…
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,…