Composers Festival Spotlight: Elizabeth A. Kelly
Today, we begin a series of posts featuring the composers who will be taking part in the 2013 Mizzou International Composers Festival. Our first subject is Elizabeth A. Kelly, one of this year's eight resident composers, and someone who shares with MU's Stefan Freund and many of the members…
Mizzou New Music Initiative in the news
In addition to the outstanding feature article about the Mizzou New Music Initiative in the May issue of St. Louis magazine linked here a few days ago, the MNMI and affiliated composers and musicians also have been the subjects of various other recent items in the media. * Composer, clarinetist and Mizzou alumna Stephanie Berg…
New music inspired by Bill Smith exhibition
to debut Saturday, May 4 at World Chess Hall of Fame
The World Chess Hall of Fame and the Mizzou New Music Initiative will present the world premieres of three new compositions inspired by the work of St. Louis visual artist Bill Smith in “The Sound of Art at the World Chess Hall of Fame” at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, May 4 at the WCHOF, 4652 Maryland…
C.O.M.P. winners perform on KSDK’s Show Me St. Louis
Two of the winners in the 2013 Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) competition performed this past Thursday, April 11 on Show Me St. Louis, an entertainment news program that airs on NBC affiliate KSDK at 12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Menea Kefalov and Ande Siegel of Ladue Middle School were the first-place winners this year…
Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P) concert will stream
Missouri students’ winning compositions to the world
For eight years, the annual Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) competition has brought young composers to the University of Missouri campus in the spring for a concert of original music. As in the past, this year’s winning compositions -…
School of Music to begin streaming concerts online
Some of the new music being made at Mizzou will soon be heard all around the world in real time. Thanks to the efforts of College of Arts and Science IT director Mike Watson and recording engineer Rob Boullion, the School of Music now has a system in place that will allow for live audio…
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-14 season
to include works from Mizzou New Music Initiative composers
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra announced Thursday that it will perform new works by two young composers associated with the Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI) as part of its 2013-14 season. The announcement came during a “town…
St. Louis Beacon spotlights Mizzou composers’ new works
for Sheldon Concert Hall’s 100th anniversary season
The St. Louis Beacon today published an article by Terry Perkins about the new works commissioned from Mizzou composers by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation that are being performed at the Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries as part of the hall's 100th anniversary season. The third commission in the series, Patrick David Clark's "Snow Coming,"…