July 12, 2010
Mizzou New Music Summer Festival on Sequenza21
The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival got a nice mention Sunday on Sequenza21, a leading website for the contemporary classical music community. Editor Steve Layton offered good wishes, mentioned all of the Festival’s guest performers and composers and our eight resident composers, and even linked to this blog. You can read his post about the Festival here.
July 12, 2010
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 composition and music theory and director of Mizzou’s electronic music studios, also will be represented during the Festival as a composer. His piece “Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird” will receive its world premiere performance by Alarm Will Sound at the Festival’s…
July 11, 2010
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 see the video online here.
July 10, 2010
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 Vivian Fine. She earned her master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota with principal composition teacher Lloyd Ultan, and also has studied extensively with Libby Larsen. Currently, Hill serves as composer-in-residence at The Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minn. and lives…
July 10, 2010
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 University, and the Akademie für Musik in Vienna. His principal teachers of composition included György Ligeti, John Chowning, and Gottfried von Einem. He is presently Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the Composition Department at the Yale School of Music,…
July 9, 2010
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 in Composition, studying with Guo Wenjing. In 2007 she was named the first Edgar Snow Scholar from CCOM and began doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City with Zhou Long, Paul Rudy, Chen Yi and James Mobberly, ultimately…
July 9, 2010
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 Wallace Stevens poem) will receive its world premiere at the Festival’s opening concert on Monday, July 12 at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts. You can read that article online here. Also, the Tribune‘s Aarik Danielsen continues his extensive coverage…
July 9, 2010
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. You can follow the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival’s Twitter feed at: http://twitter.com/MizzouNewMusic.