July 27, 2010

Zhou Juan, Christopher Dietz win faculty appointments

While the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival was going on, two of our resident composers got some good news regarding their academic careers. Christopher Dietz has won a one-year appointment as a full-time composition instructor at Bowling Green State University, home of the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music. Dietz' music was performed at BGSU in…

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,…