Feb. 5, 2019

St. Louis Symphony musicians to premiere new work by Stephanie Berg

Musicians from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will premiere a new work by Mizzou alumnae Stephanie Berg in a concert next month at Powell Hall in St. Louis. Berg's "Three Prayers" was commissioned by SLSO clarinetist Diana Haskell, and will be performed for the first time as part of of a program of chamber music…

April 22, 2016

Stefan Freund’s “Cyrillic Dreams” to be performed by St. Louis Symphony in concert on Friday, April 29

The St. Louis Symphony once again will feature music from a Mizzou composer as part of their subscription season when they perform Stefan Freund’s "Cyrillic Dreams” in a concert at 8:00 p.m. Friday, April 29 at Powell Hall in St. Louis. Freund (pictured) is associate professor of composition and music theory at the University of…

Nov. 24, 2014

MNMI alumni in the news

Several Mizzou composition alumni have been in the news this fall: * Grant Fonda, who earned his master's degree at Mizzou in 2012, was featured as a "composer to watch" as part of ASCAP's "Composer Spotlight." Fonda (pictured) was selected earlier this year to take part in the the organization's Film Scoring Workshop in Los…

March 20, 2014

MICF resident composers in the news

Here's the latest news and updates from some of the resident composers at past Mizzou International Composers Festivals: * Jeremy Podgursky, MICF 2010, is one of six winners this year of a Charles Ives scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The $7,500 scholarships are awarded to composition students of great promise, as…

Jan. 13, 2014

St. Louis Symphony performs Stephanie Berg’s “Ravish and Mayhem”

Mizzou alumna Stephanie Berg's composition "Ravish and Mayhem" was performed by the St. Louis Symphony on January 10 and 11 at Powell Hall in St. Louis to standing ovations from the audiences and rave reviews from local critics. Writing for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller found "Ravish and Mayhem" to…

July 17, 2013

Composers Festival Spotlight: Mizzou New Music Ensemble

Although resident ensemble Alarm Will Sound understandably attracts a lot of attention during the Mizzou International Composers Festival, let's not forget that the "Mizzou New Music" concert on Friday, July 26 at the Missouri Theatre will showcase the Mizzou New Music Initiative's "home team," the Mizzou New…

July 11, 2013

MICF on TV

This week, a TV commercial promoting the 2013 Mizzou International Composers Festival began airing in Columbia, Jefferson City, St. Louis and Kansas City. The commercial is part of an extensive campaign that also includes ads in daily newspapers and on radio in central Missouri; in Missouri Life, Inside Columbia and the St. Louis Business Journal;…

May 14, 2013

Mizzou New Music Initiative in the news

In addition to the outstanding feature article about the Mizzou New Music Initiative in the May issue of St. Louis magazine linked here a few days ago, the MNMI and affiliated composers and musicians also have been the subjects of various other recent items in the media. * Composer, clarinetist and Mizzou alumna Stephanie Berg…