July 13, 2020

Mizzou International Composers Festival going online for 2020,
will take place Monday, July 27 – Saturday, August 1

Responding to the restrictions on live events imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mizzou International Composers Festival is going online for 2020. The 11th annual edition of the MICF is set for Monday, July 27 through Saturday, August…

Feb. 27, 2020

Mizzou New Music Ensemble hitting the road in May
for concert in Texas, tour of South America

The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will hit the road this spring to perform a concert in Fort Worth, TX, followed by a tour of South America that will take them to Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Uruguay. The journey will begin with a performance at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, May 9 at the Amon Carter Museum of…

Sept. 18, 2019

Mizzou New Music Ensemble to perform works by Boulez, Higdon, Martínez, and Heredia in concert Sunday, October 6 at Whitmore Recital Hall

The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will begin their 2019-20 season with a concert featuring works by two modern masters, a Mizzou alumnus, and a current Mizzou faculty member. The Ensemble (pictured) will perform music by Pierre Boulez, Jennifer Higdon, José Martínez, and Carolina Heredia at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, October 6 at Whitmore Recital Hall on…

July 29, 2019

A look back at the 2019 Mizzou International Composers Festival

July 21, 2019

2019 MICF featured in Columbia Daily Tribune

On the Sunday just before the start of this year's Mizzou International Composers Festival, the Columbia Daily Tribune published four articles by features editor Aarik Danielsen telling readers about the fest. You can read them all at the Tribune's website by clicking on the links below: * Meet this year’s composers * Come Together: MU…

July 16, 2019

Composers Festival spotlight: Khemia Ensemble

Khemia Ensemble will play a prominent role during their Mizzou International Composers Festival debut this year, presenting three performances featuring works by a total of 16 different composers. Founded and led by University of Missouri School of Music faculty members Carolina Heredia and Bret Bohman, and including Mizzou assistant professor of cello Eli Lara, Khemia…

Nov. 16, 2018

Fall 2018 Student Composers Recital set for Monday, November 26 at Whitmore Recital Hall

The Fall 2018 edition of the University of Missouri School of Music’s Student Composers Recital will present new works written and performed by students at 7:30 p.m. Monday, November 26 at Whitmore Recital Hall on the Mizzou campus. Admission is free and open to the public. The program will include: "The Wooden Playground" by Nathan…

Sept. 24, 2018

Carolina Heredia wins Grand Prize in Chamber Music OC’s inaugural International New Music Competition

Mizzou's Carolina Heredia has won the John Corigliano Grand Prize in the first International New Music Competition sponsored by Chamber Music OC, a new music presenting and educational organization in Irvine, CA. Heredia, who is an assistant professor of composition at Mizzou, won the prize for "Ausencias," a thirty-minute intermedia work for string quartet, fixed…