July 9, 2010

Spotlight on Derek Bermel

The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is privileged to have Derek Bermel (pictured) as one of the guest composers and instructors working with our eight resident composers this year. Described by the Toronto Star as an "eclectic with wide open ears" and by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as "one of America's finest young composers", Bermel has…

July 8, 2010

If you’re coming to Columbia…

If you're coming to Columbia to attend the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, you may find some of these links useful: Visitors information: Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau Columbia Regional Airport Hotels in Columbia "Virtual tour" of Columbia I Heart Columbia Vox Magazine's guide to Columbia restaurants Mid-Missouri Dining Guide Media: Columbia Tribune Columbia Missourian…

July 8, 2010

Spotlight on Kirk Trevor

The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is fortunate to have Maestro Kirk Trevor as one of our guest artists in 2010. Trevor (pictured) will conduct the Festival's "Composers That Rock" concert featuring pianist Lisa Moore on Thursday, July 15, but audiences in Columbia have known him since the year 2000 as the conductor and music…

July 6, 2010

Spotlight on Paul Dooley

Here's another in our series of profiles of the resident composers at the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: Paul M. Dooley (pictured) is a composer, pianist, and percussionist currently working for his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Michigan, where he is the Graduate Student Instructor in Electronic Music. He was born…

July 6, 2010

Spotlight on Amy Beth Kirsten

Here's another in our series of profiles of the resident composers taking part in this year's Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: Born in East St. Louis, Illinois, Amy Beth Kirsten grew up in Kansas City and Chicago, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Vocal Jazz Studies from Benedictine University and a master’s degree in…

July 6, 2010

Mizzou New Music Summer Festival featured in Columbia Daily Tribune

The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival was the subject of a couple of stories published this past Sunday, July 4 in the Columbia Daily Tribune. Staff writer Aarik Danielsen penned an extensive overview of the festival, covering its concept and origins, guest composers and performers, and more. You can read his article online here. Danielsen…

July 2, 2010

About the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts

The venue for the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival's public performances will be the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, an historic, newly restored former movie palace at 203 S. Ninth St. in downtown Columbia. First opened in 1928, the MTCA had a six-decade run as the city's most prominent movie house, but by the late 1980s,…

July 2, 2010

Spotlight on Moon Young Ha

Here's another in our series of profiles of the resident composers taking part in this year's Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: Moon Young Ha (pictured) combines classical instruments, video and electronics to create ethereal contemporary concert music. His work has been presented at festivals and concerts in France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Serbia, Lithuania,…