July 21, 2025
Five Questions for MICF Resident Composer Amy Brandon
Amy Brandon is one of eight Resident Composers selected to participate in the 2025 Mizzou International Composers Festival. MICF Resident Ensemble Alarm Will Sound will perform her composition Incipit at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 26, at Columbia’s Missouri Theatre. The concert is free and open to the public. JUNO-nominated composer Amy Brandon’s pieces have been described as “gut-wrenching and horrific” [Critipeg], “otherworldly, a clashing of bleakness with beauty” [Minor Seventh], and “arresting, riveting music, highly original and individual” [Simon Cummings, 5:4]. Recent works include a NextGen commission…
