July 17, 2018
Composers Festival spotlight: Douglas Osmun
The University of Missouri’s representative among this year’s group of resident composers at the Mizzou International Composers Festival is Douglas Osmun, who recently earned his M.M. in composition from Mizzou. Originally from Zeeland, MI, Osmun previously received his bachelor’s degree in music from Western Michigan University, where he was named a Beulah and Harold McKee Scholar. He is a composer of both acoustic and electronic music who describes his work as “deeply concerned with elements of sound embodiment, spatialization, and perception.” Osmun’s new work for the MICF is called “in effigies,” and it will be performed along with…
June 28, 2018
2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival
complete schedule of events and ticket information
Here is the complete schedule of events and information on how to get tickets for the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival. The 2018 MICF begins on Monday, July 23 and continues through Saturday, July 28. Festival events will be held at the Fine Arts Building and Loeb Hall on the campus of the University of Missouri and at the Missouri Theatre in downtown Columbia, including: Monday, July 23 10:00 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Resident Composer Presentations: Amanda Feery, Igor Santos, and Viet Cuong Fine Arts Building Room 145 on the Mizzou campus Open to…
May 18, 2018
Tickets for 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival go on sale Friday, May 25
Tickets for the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF) will go on sale at 10:00 a.m. CDT on Friday, May 25. Recognized as an important regional showcase for new works by top young composers, the MICF will take place this year from Monday, July 23 through Saturday, July 28 in Columbia, and will include three public concerts. Returning for the ninth year as the festival’s resident ensemble, Alarm Will Sound will begin the weekend of shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 26 at the Missouri Theatre, 203 S. Ninth St. in downtown Columbia. They’ll perform music…
April 6, 2018
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra musicians to perform three new works by Mizzou composers on Sunday, April 29 at Powell Hall
Dustin Dunn, Aaron Mencher and Douglas Osmun Members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, led by the SLSO’s resident conductor Gemma New, will perform three new works by student composers from the University of Missouri School of Music at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 29 at Powell Hall in St. Louis. Admission to the performance is free and open to the public, but those wishing to attend are requested to RSVP via the SLSO’s website at https://www.slso.org/en/com/community_concerts/community-events/mizzou-composers/. The event is the culmination of a year-long collaboration between the SLSO and the Mizzou New Music Initiative, with funding from…
Jan. 3, 2018
Mizzou International Composers Festival announces resident composers for 2018
The Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI) has selected eight resident composers to participate in the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF). Presented by MNMI and the University of Missouri School of Music from Monday, July 23 through Saturday, July 28 in Columbia, the ninth annual MICF will feature world premieres of new works written by each of the selected composers. Listed with their current places of residence, they are: * Oren Boneh, Berkeley, CA * Christine Burke, Iowa City, IA * Viet Cuong, Philadelphia, PA * Amanda Feery, Princeton, NJ…
Aug. 22, 2017
St. Louis Symphony musicians to read works by Mizzou composers
Three student composers from the University of Missouri School of Music will get a chance this academic year to have their orchestral works read, critiqued, and then played again by musicians from the St. Louis Symphony. Under the auspices of the Mizzou New Music Initiative, student composers Dustin Dunn, Aaron Mencher, and Douglas Osmun (pictured) are writing new works for a 40-piece chamber orchestra, which will be read and played by members of the Symphony in a private session this November in St. Louis. The composers then will get a chance to revise their works…
April 18, 2017
Mizzou New Music Ensemble to debut “Eclipse Symphony” with performances in Columbia and St. Louis
The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will commemorate the upcoming solar eclipse of August 2017 with performances in Columbia and St. Louis of the “Eclipse Symphony,” a new collaborative, multi-part work by four Mizzou student composers. The work will be previewed in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 29 at the Bond Life Sciences Center on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, with the official premiere set for 7:00 p.m. Friday, May 5 at the St. Louis Science Center’s James S. McDonnell Planetarium. General admission to the concert in Columbia is $5 for the public, free for…
Nov. 30, 2016
Mizzou composer Douglas Osmun featured in Columbia Missourian
Mizzou composer Douglas Osmun, a first-year graduate student in composition and the winner of the 2017 Sinquefield Composition Prize, was the subject of a feature story this week in the Columbia Missourian. Osmun (pictured) talked with reporter Ann Marion about his composition process and about “First Fig,” the work he submitted in this year’s Sinquefield Prize competition. As the winner of the competition, Osman was commissioned to write a new work for the University Philharmonic, which will get a premiere performance in April at the annual Chancellor’s Arts Showcase at the Missouri Theatre. You can read the whole story…