A nod from Nonesuch
The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival and resident ensemble Alarm Will Sound are mentioned today in a journal entry on the website of AWS' record company, Nonesuch, which is known for its support for adventurous music of all sorts. You can read the item here.
Alarm Will Sound profiled in Columbia Missourian
Alarm Will Sound is the subject of a short feature story written by Emily Lynn for today's Vox magazine, the arts and entertainment section of the Columbia Missourian. AWS is the Festival's resident ensemble this year, performing in both the opening concert this past Monday and in the finale coming up on Sunday. You can…
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…
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…
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:
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…
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…
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.