Spotlight on W. Thomas McKenney

As the Mizzou faculty member charged with overseeing the Festival, W. Thomas "Tom" McKenney has been involved in the event since its inception. During the next week, his task will be even more hands-on, as he works with the Festival's eight resident composers, takes part in faculty presentations, and more. McKenney, who is professor of…

Amy Beth Kirsten featured in New Haven Register

Mizzou New Music Summer Festival resident composer Amy Beth Kirsten is the subject of a feature story published today in the New Haven (CT) Register. The article by the Register's arts editor Donna Doherty also includes a short video of Kirsten talking about the Festival and her writing process. You can read the story and…

Spotlight on Edie Hill

Here's another in our series of profiles of the resident composers taking part in this year's Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: The most experienced among the 2010 Festival's eight resident composers, New York City native Edie Hill (pictured) earned a bachelor’s degree in music composition and piano performance at Bennington College, where she studied with…

Spotlight on Martin Bresnick

We are honored to have Martin Bresnick as one of the guest composers and instructors who will work with the eight resident composers taking part in the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival. Bresnick (pictured) was born in New York City and educated at the High School of Music and Art, the University of Hartford, Stanford…

Spotlight on Zhou Juan

Here's another in our series of profiles of the resident composers taking part in this year's Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: A native of Sichuan, China, Zhou Juan (pictured) was raised in Kelamayi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees…

More news coverage of Mizzou New Music Summer Festival

The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is the subject of two more stories published yesterday by Columbia's newspapers. The Missourian's Mallory Benedict wrote a story about the Festival highlighting the contribution of Thomas McKenney, MU professor of composition and music theory. McKenney's new piece "Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird" ("loosely inspired" by a…

Mizzou New Music Initiative on Facebook, Twitter

In addition to this blog, the Festival website, and the main website for the Mizzou New Music Initiative, we're also on Facebook and Twitter. You'll find our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/moNEWmusic. If you're a Facebook member, click on the "Like" button, and you'll get updates from the page as part of your Facebook news feed.…

Spotlight on Jeremy Podgursky

Here's another in our series of profiles of the resident composers taking part in this year's Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: Jeremy Podgursky (pictured) is a composer and performer of acoustic and electro-acoustic concert music who originally is from Louisville, KY. He currently lives in Bloomington, IN, where he has a Jacobs School of Music…