Jan. 9, 2012
Mizzou New Music Summer Festival’s resident composers will bring diversity to 2012 event
From a London-based composer pursuing a doctorate at the Royal Academy of Music, to a Greek studying music in upstate New York, to a Kansas City native working towards her Master’s degree at Mizzou, the resident composers selected for this year’s Mizzou New Music Summer Festival are perhaps the most diverse group yet in the event’s three-year history. The University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative today announced the eight resident composers selected for the 2012 Festival, which will take place Monday, July 23 through Saturday, July 28 in Columbia. Chosen through…
Nov. 23, 2011
Stephanie Berg wins statewide composition competition
University of Missouri graduate student Stephanie Berg (pictured) has won this year’s award in the “Young Artist” category of the Missouri State Division of Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) composition competition. Berg, who is pursuing a Master’s degree in clarinet performance and composition at Mizzou, was recognized for her piece “Of Air Sweet and Water Deep.” The work was composed in 2010 for the Mizzou New Music Ensemble and premiered at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis as part of a tribute to the Garden’s President Emeritus, Dr. Peter Raven. “Of Air Sweet and Water Deep”…
Nov. 23, 2011
Kirsten, Podgursky win commissions from Harvard’s Fromm Foundation
Congratulations to Amy Beth Kirsten and Jeremy Podgursky, both resident composers at the inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival in 2010, for winning $10,000 commissions this year from Harvard University’s Fromm Music Foundation. The Fromm Music Foundation has been located at Harvard since 1972, and has commissioned more than 300 new compositions and their performances, as well as sponsoring hundreds of new music concerts and concert series. Kirsten and Podgursky are among 12 winners of commissions this year.
Nov. 1, 2011
Missouri Composers Orchestra Project seeks recent works for performance in March
The Columbia Civic Orchestra (CCO) and the Mizzou New Music Initiative are looking for recent orchestral compositions written by Missouri residents to perform at a concert in March, 2012. To inaugurate the Missouri Composers Orchestra Project, a new program sponsored by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, the CCO will present a concert of six recent works by Missouri composers at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, March 10 at Columbia College’s Launer Auditorium, 901 Rogers Street in Columbia. Four of the works presented at the concert will be selected through a competitive process – one from the High School category…
Oct. 19, 2011
Michael E. Anderson wins 2012 Sinquefield Composition Prize
Mizzou senior Michael E. Anderson is the winner of the 2012 Sinquefield Composition Prize The University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative are pleased to announce that Michael E. Anderson (pictured) is the winner of the 2012 Sinquefield Composition Prize. Anderson, a Mizzou senior, submitted his piece “At the Mercy of the Forest” to the competition and was selected for the prize by a panel of independent judges. The adjudicators for the 2012 competition were Warren Gooch, professor of music theory and composition at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO; Martin Kennedy, assistant professor…
Aug. 25, 2011
Mizzou New Music Summer Festival resident composers earn new honors
Several of the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival’s resident composers recently have received additional honors for their work. Clint Needham (pictured), who was one of the resident composers for the 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, was awarded the prestigious Barlow Prize for 2011. A total of 170 composers from around the world applied for this award, which carries a $12,000 commission to write a new work for woodwind quintet. In addition, three resident composers were recognized among the 15 members of the last round of competition for the new music ensemble eighth blackbird‘s…
June 27, 2011
The Sound of Art documents collaboration between composers, visual artists
The Mizzou New Music Initiative has released online three episodes of The Sound of Art, a series of short films documenting collaborative efforts between composers and visual artists. Now available for viewing on the Missouri New Music Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/moNEWmusic, the films cover the creation of three new compositions inspired by the summer 2010 exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and the premiere performances of those compositions at the Contemporary by the Mizzou New Music Ensemble. Episode 1 features an interview with composer David Witter, who wrote “Failure to Communicate” in response to artist…
April 27, 2011
Mizzou New Music Summer Festival announces
selection of eight resident composers for 2011
The University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative have selected eight resident composers for the 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, which will be held Monday, July 11 through Saturday, July 16 in Columbia. They are: * Kari Besharse, Champaign IL * David Biedenbender, Ann Arbor MI * Patrick David Clark, Columbia MO * Michael-Thomas Foumai, Honolulu HI * Yotam Haber, New York NY * Clint Needham, Columbus OH * Steven Snowden, Austin TX * Liza White, Berkeley CA The…