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, Canada and the United States, including the International Computer Music Conference, Bang on a Can Marathon, Vilniaus Veidai Festival, NoiseFloor Festival, KoMA Festival, the Society of Composers Inc. conference and others. Recently, Ha has collaborated…
June 30, 2010
Spotlight on Lisa Moore
The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is delighted to have pianist Lisa Moore (pictured) as a guest performer. Born in Canberra and raised in Australia and London before moving to the USA in 1980, Moore is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Eastman School of Music and SUNY Stonybrook. She now lives in New York City, where she collaborates with a large and diverse range of musicians and artists. The New York Times says “her energy is illuminating” and the New Yorker magazine called her “visionary” and “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano.” A founding member of…
June 30, 2010
Spotlight on Christopher Dietz
Here’s another in our series of brief profiles of the eight resident composers who will be part of the inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival: The music of Milwaukee native Christopher Dietz (pictured) has been recognized with honors and awards from the Camargo Foundation, the Banff Centre, Copland House, ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the Minnesota Orchestra Reading Sessions and Composer Institute and several other institutions. Dietz earned a Ph.D. in Composition and Theory from the University of Michigan, as well as degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Wisconsin. He currently…
June 29, 2010
Spotlight on Francisco Cortez-Alvarez
The inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival will feature the world premieres of new works from eight resident composers selected to be part of the event from a group of more than 120 applicants from around the world. Here’s the first in a series of brief profiles of those composers: Pianist/composer Francisco Cortes-Alvarez (pictured) was born in Mexico City and received a degree in music composition with honorific mention and the Gabino Barreda Medal from the National School of Music (ENM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He currently is pursuing a master’s of music…
June 28, 2010
Spotlight on Alarm Will Sound
The inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is fortunate to have Alarm Will Sound (pictured) as our resident ensemble. They’ll kick off the festival with a concert at the Missouri Theater and Center for the Arts on Monday, July 12, and will work with our eight emerging composers throughout the week, culminating in the world premiere of their new works at the concluding concert on Sunday, July 18. Their performances have been described as “equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity” by the London Financial Times and as “a…
June 28, 2010
About the Mizzou New Music Initiative
The Mizzou New Music Summer Festival is just one part of the Mizzou New Music Initiative, which brings together a diverse array of programs intended to position the University of Missouri School of Music as a leading center in the areas of composition and new music. The Initiative is the direct result of the generous support of Dr. Jeanne and Mr. Rex Sinquefield, and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. The Sinquefields’ vision is to create an incubator for the composition and performance of new music, and to position Missouri as a major…
June 22, 2010
Tickets now on sale for inaugural
Mizzou New Music Summer Festival
Tickets are now on sale for the inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, which will be held Monday, July 12 through Sunday, July 18 in Columbia, MO. The weeklong series of events will include four public concerts, culminating in the world premieres of new works written by eight international composers and performed by the acclaimed new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, July 18 in the newly renovated Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts (MTCA), 203 S. Ninth St. in downtown Columbia. Other public performances at the MTCA…
June 22, 2010
Welcome!
Welcome to the blog of the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival. Here, you'll find information on the festival, the participating composers and musicians, the Mizzou New Music Initiative, and much more. The charter members of our blogging team are William J. "Billy" Lackey, Admissions and Publicity Coordinator for the University of Missouri School of Music (and a composer himself) and Dean Minderman, a Mizzou alumnus, musician and music journalist based in St. Louis. We'll add more contributors as we go, including live blogging during the festival from the eight emerging composers whose work will be featured this year. Please bookmark this site, or add our feed - https://master-7rqtwti-qufwqsvgrfbs4.us-4.platformsh.site/?feed=rss2 - to your reader of choice! If you have comments, suggestions or would like to get in touch for any other reason, please send an email to LackeyW@missouri.edu.