Q&A with MICF Guest Composer Mary Kouyoumdjian
This year is not the first time MICF Guest Composer Mary Kouyoumdjian has been a part of the festival. In 2016 she was a Resident Composer still learning her art and forming new alliances with groups such as Resident Ensemble Alarm Will Sound. Paper Pianos, a piece she was working on back then, grew into…
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Composers Festival spotlight: Erin Gee
The innovative composer of vocal music Erin Gee is one of the two distinguished guest composers at this year's Mizzou International Composers Festival. In that capacity, she'll give a public presentation on her music; teach and interact informally with the festival's eight resident composers; and be in the audience for performances of her work in…
2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival
schedule of events and ticket information
Here's the complete schedule of events and information on how to get tickets for the 2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival. The 2016 MICF begins on Monday, July 25 and continues through Saturday, July 30. Festival events will be held at the Fine Arts Building and Loeb Hall on the University of Missouri campus and at…
Tickets for 2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival go on sale Friday, June 3
Tickets for the 2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF) will go on sale at 10:00 a.m. CDT on Friday, June 3. Hailed as “a vibrant inferno of creative energy” by the internationally syndicated radio program “Relevant Tones,” and praised for offering “kinetic excitement” by the hometown Columbia Daily Tribune,…
Mizzou New Music Ensemble to perform works by four award-winning composers Tuesday, March 22 at Whitmore Recital Hall
The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will play works from four award-winning composers in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 at Whitmore Recital Hall on the University of Missouri campus. Admission is free for Mizzou students, faculty and staff with ID, $5 for the general public. The program will include two pieces from composers…
Mizzou International Composers Festival announces resident composers for 2016
The Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI) has selected eight resident composers to participate in the 2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF). Presented annually since 2010 by MNMI and the University of Missouri School of Music, the MICF in just six years has become the Midwest's top summer showcase for intriguing new music by composers from…
2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival
gets applications from 18 countries
The numbers have been tallied, and the 2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF) has received submissions from a total of 229 individuals hoping to be among the fest's eight resident composers, including 129 who applied for the first time. The 2016 MICF will take place from Monday, July 25 through Saturday, July 30 in Columbia.…