Nov. 26, 2018

Mizzou New Music Ensemble to perform works from MADSM competition, Mizzou and more on Sunday, December 2 at Whitmore Recital Hall

The Mizzou New Music Ensemble will perform four new student works plus two pieces from acclaimed contemporary composers in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, December 2 at Whitmore Recital Hall, 135 Fine Arts Building on the Mizzou campus. Admission is free and open to the public. Two of the student works were selected for the performance through the first-ever Collegiate Composition Competition co-sponsored this year by the Mizzou New Music Initiative and the Missouri Association of Departments and Schools of Music (MADSM). Ryan Jeschke, a senior composition major at Truman State University, won the MADSM competition’s undergraduate…

Nov. 19, 2018

Composer Nina C. Young coming to Mizzou for residency, concert

Composer Nina C. Young will visit Mizzou at the end of this month to coach the Mizzou New Music Ensemble and give a pre-concert talk before a performance of one of her works. Young (pictured), who is an assistant professor of composition and director of the electronic music studios at the University of Texas at Austin and a visiting composer at the Peabody Institute, will be in Columbia starting Friday, November 30. She’ll spend some time during the day on Friday working with the Ensemble, which will perform her composition “Rising Tide” as part of their concert on Sunday,…