Tickets now on sale for 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival
Tickets are now on sale for the 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, which will be held Monday, July 11 through Saturday, July 16 in Columbia. The weeklong series of events will include four public concerts, with the grand finale featuring the world premieres of new works written by the festival’s eight resident composers and…
Mizzou New Music Summer Festival announces
selection of eight resident composers for 2011
The University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative have selected eight resident composers for the 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, which will be held Monday, July 11 through Saturday, July 16 in Columbia. They are: * Kari Besharse, Champaign IL * David Biedenbender, Ann Arbor MI * Patrick David Clark,…
Mizzou New Music Ensemble premieres “The Garden Symphony”
The Mizzou New Music Ensemble last Sunday traveled to the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis to take part in an event paying tribute to Peter Raven, director emeritus of the Garden. The Ensemble presented the world premiere performance of "The Garden Symphony," a four-part work co-composed by Mizzou students Michael Anderson, Stephanie Berg, Laura…
C.O.M.P. winners make news
The announcement of the winners of this year's Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) competition has prompted a flurry of press coverage around the state. In St. Louis, sisters Bella and Lilly Ibur have been the subjects of several news stories. They recently were featured on Show Me St. Louis, which airs weekday afternoons on local…
Mizzou New Music Initiative in the media
While new posts here have been scarce of late, there's been plenty of activity involving the Initiative, including this year's C.O.M.P. competition and preparations for the 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival. There also has been some media coverage this month of the Initiative and some of the people involved in it: * The St.…
Missouri student composers win prizes in statewide music competition
The University of Missouri School of Music has announced that 28 elementary, middle school and high school students from across Missouri have been awarded prizes in the sixth annual Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) competition. C.O.M.P. is a joint venture of the University of Missouri School of Music and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, which provides…
New Music Ensemble to perform Monday, December 6 at Whitmore Recital Hall
The Mizzou New Music Ensemble (pictured) will present their second performance of the 2010-11 season at 8:00 p.m. Monday, December 6 at Whitmore Recital Hall on the University of Missouri campus. If you're in Columbia or anywhere nearby, you're invited to attend the concert, which is free and open to the public. The Ensemble is…
Roger Reynolds among composers celebrated at ONCE.MORE.
Roger Reynolds, who will be one of the guest composers for the 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, recently returned to Ann Arbor, MI to celebrate the legacy of the ONCE Festival and the associated group of new music composers he helped to found during the 1960s. The event ONCE. MORE. was an interdisciplinary celebration…