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.,…
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 performer with Alarm Will Sound, the Fest’s resident ensemble. A native of Memphis, TN, Freund received a BM with High Distinction from the Indiana University School of Music and an MM and a DMA from the…
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 for adults, $5 for students for the concerts on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; and $15 for adults, $10 for students for the final concert on Sunday. Tickets can be charged by phone by calling the Missouri Theatre box office at 573-875-0600 or purchased online…