April 20, 2020

Mizzou’s 2020 Summer Composition Institute to proceed online

Following the policies announced by the University of Missouri, this year’s Missouri Summer Composition Institute, scheduled from Monday, June 21 through Saturday, June 27, will take place entirely online. The high school students and incoming first-year college students participating in the program still will receive extensive personal instruction and interaction with Mizzou faculty, and will be able to hear the Khemia Ensemble bring their compositions to life. Activities will include daily courses in notation, instrumentation, and repertoire; daily private composition lessons; workshops with members of the Khemia Ensemble; and a remote chamber music recording workshop. Because of the…

April 8, 2019

Mizzou seeks high school students for Missouri Summer Composition Institute

The Mizzou New Music Initiative is looking for Missouri high school students interested in music composition to attend the 2019 Missouri Summer Composition Institute, which will be held from Sunday, June 16 through Saturday, June 22 on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. Known informally as “COMP Camp,” after MNMI’s annual Creating Original Music Project contest for student composers, the Institute is open to students entering grades 9-12 and entering college freshman. The week-long program offers young composers from across the state the opportunity to receive composition lessons from MU faculty, learn from and interact with other creative…