July 27, 2010
Zhou Juan, Christopher Dietz win faculty appointments
While the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival was going on, two of our resident composers got some good news regarding their academic careers. Christopher Dietz has won a one-year appointment as a full-time composition instructor at Bowling Green State University, home of the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music. Dietz’ music was performed at BGSU in 2008 and 2009 as part of the the university’s annual new music festival. Meanwhile, Zhou Juan (pictured) has been appointed to a full-time teaching position in the composition department of the Central Conservatory of Music in…
July 27, 2010
More coverage of Mizzou New Music Summer Festival
With the first-ever Mizzou New Music Summer Festival now officially part of history, we’ll have photos, audio and video from the inaugural fest available here very soon. In the meantime, a few more news items about the Festival also have hit our inbox in recent days: The MNMSF was featured in the July 22 edition of the online alumni news publication Mizzou Weekly, with a photo of Stefan Freund prominently displayed. The Festival also recently got a mention in the context of Columbia’s overall arts scene from an aspiring young journalist taking part in one of Mizzou’s…
July 16, 2010
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.
July 15, 2010
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 read the Missourian article online here.
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 mentioned briefly today on The Rest is Noise, the blog of New Yorker music critic Alex Ross. You can see that item here.
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 the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, recently was interviewed on the St. Louis community radio station KDHX (FM 88.1). You can listen to her talk about the Initiative and the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival with KDHX’s Nancy Kranzberg here.
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 ensemble Alarm Will Sound (pictured) will hold several open rehearsals during the week. Here’s the schedule of open rehearsals and their locations: Tuesday, July 13: 1:45 p.m – 5:00 p.m, Loeb Hall 201 Wednesday, July 14: 1:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.,…