Feb. 19, 2024

Mizzou New Music Initiative releases 2023 activity summary

The Mizzou New Music Initiative has released its summary of 2023 activities for the Mizzou New Music Ensemble, composition students and Mizzou International Composers Festival. MIZZOU NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE The NME performed concerts including music by Maria Disandro, Santiago Beis, Sam Whitty, Franco Donatoni, Kevin Day, Gabe Evers, Sofia Fiorino, and Atticus Schlegel in the…

Dec. 4, 2020

MICF alumni in the news

Although the resident composers for the Mizzou International Composers Festival are with us here in Columbia for only a short time each summer, MNMI continues to follow the progress of their careers as the years pass. Congratulations to these MICF alumni…

June 27, 2017

Alarm Will Sound, Mary Kouyoumdjian receive major grant for “Paper Pianos”

Alarm Will Sound, the resident ensemble for the Mizzou International Composers Festival, and Mary Kouyoumdjian, one of the eight resident composers at last year's MICF, have received a major grant from The MAP Fund to underwrite production next year of an evening-long version of her work "Paper Pianos." Kouyoumdjian (pictured), who lives in New York…

Aug. 1, 2016

A look back at the 2016 Mizzou International Composers Festival…

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July 15, 2016

Composers Festival spotlight: Mary Kouyoumdjian

Although composer Mary Kouyoumdjian was born in the USA, her music definitely is informed by perspectives from beyond its' borders. As a first generation Armenian-American from a family directly affected by the Lebanese civil war and Armenian genocide, Kouyoumdjian uses a sonic palette that, in her words, "draws on her heritage, interest in music as…

July 13, 2016

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…

May 26, 2016

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,…

Jan. 18, 2016

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…