July 13, 2010

Lisa Moore featured on Tribune’s Art Axis blog

Pianist Lisa Moore, who will perform in tonight's Mizzou New Music Summer Festival concert at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, is featured today in a post on the Columbia Daily Tribune's Art Axis blog. You can read Tribune writer Aarik Danielsen's missive about Moore here. The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival also is…

July 12, 2010

Mizzou New Music Summer Festival featured on MizzouWire, KDHX

The University's online news service MizzouWire has a feature up now about the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival. You can read the article "Sounds of Summer: Mizzou New Music Summer Festival resonates with aficionados" by Nancy Moen here. Also, Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield (pictured), founder and funder of the Mizzou New Music Initiative and head of…

July 12, 2010

See the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival’s promotional video

Check out the short promotional spot for the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival in the embedded video window below:

July 12, 2010

Mizzou New Music Summer Festival includes free events

In addition to the ticketed concerts at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival includes a number of events that are free of charge and open to the public. For those who'd like to get an inside look at how brand new compositions are prepared for performance, our resident…

July 12, 2010

Spotlight on Stefan Freund

Cellist and composer Stefan Freund is a big part of the Mizzou New Music Initiative. As associate professor of composition and music theory, Freund teaches young composers at Mizzou and directs the Creating Original Music Project (COMP). He'll be busy during the inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, too, both as a teacher and as a…

July 12, 2010

Alarm Will Sound’s Alan Pierson interviewed by Columbia Daily Tribune

The Columbia Daily Tribune's Aarik Danielsen continues his coverage of the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival today via an interview with Alarm Will Sound artistic director, conductor and keyboardist Alan Pierson (pictured). You can read the interview posted on the paper's Art Axis blog here.

July 12, 2010

Last chance for Festival passes

The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival opens tonight, which means you have only a few more hours to purchase Festival passes, good for admission to all four concerts at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts. The cost of the four-concert pass is $35 for adults, $20 for students. Single tickets are priced at $10…

July 12, 2010

Mizzou New Music Summer Festival on Sequenza21

The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival got a nice mention Sunday on Sequenza21, a leading website for the contemporary classical music community.  Editor Steve Layton offered good wishes, mentioned all of the Festival's guest performers and composers and our eight resident composers, and even linked to this blog. You can read his post about the…