April 1, 2025
Students Gonzalez, Schlegel, and Wolfe premiere new works with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
New works by three University of Missouri School of Music students were given their world premiere on Wednesday, March 26, in a concert by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra at the Touhill Performing Arts Center in St. Louis. SLSO Assistant Conductor Samuel Hollister led the performance. Harry Gonzalez, a master’s student from Medellin, Colombia; Atticus Schlegel, a senior from St. Louis; and JT Wolfe, a senior from St. Joseph, MO, were selected to participate in the program through a collaboration between the SLSO and the Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI). The pieces performed…
Sep. 10, 2024
St. Louis Area Concert Series to Showcase Mizzou New Music Initiative Composers’ Works Performed by St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Members
A series of six new concerts featuring new works from the Mizzou New Music Initiative composers will be performed in St. Louis this fall and in spring 2025 by members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra at the Sheldon Concert Hall and the Touhill Performing Arts Center.The Mizzou New Music Initiative is a diverse array of programs that position the University of Missouri School of Music as a leading center for the composition and performance of new music. The initiative is supported by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, led…
Feb. 5, 2024
The Mizzou New Music Initiative announces its schedule of events being held in St. Louis, MO, during the spring 2024 semester
Today, the Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI) announced its schedule of events being held in St. Louis, MO, during the spring 2024 semester. Feb. 7, 2024, 7:30 p.m. Robyne Sieh’s Sheldon Commission Premiere, “The Art of Dreaming,” is part of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra chamber music concert “Ravel and Dvorák: Strings with Piano,” curated by SLSO Concertmaster David Halen and Principal Second Violin Alison Harney. A senior from O’Fallon, MO, Sieh says the inspiration for the piece was “a story about someone who is wrongly imprisoned and then later released” and calls it, “an allegory to…
Oct. 23, 2023
The Mizzou New Music Initiative announces its schedule of St. Louis, MO, events for the fall 2023 and spring 2024 semesters
The Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI) has announced its schedule of events being held in St. Louis, MO, during the fall 2023 and spring 2024 semesters. The Mizzou New Music Initiative is a diverse array of programs that position the University of Missouri School of Music as a leading center for the composition and performance of new music. The initiative is supported by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, led by Dr. Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield. Their vision is to create an incubator for the composition and performance of new music and to showcase Missouri as a center for the music of…
Sep. 21, 2018
Dustin Dunn wins UMSL Young Composers Competition
Dustin Dunn’s composition “In the Shadow of Shepherd Mountain” has been selected as the winner of the 2018 UMSL Young Composers Competition (Wind Ensemble, division 2). The work will be premiered by the UMSL Wind Ensemble as part of a concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 17 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Dunn (pictured), a senior from Annapolis, Missouri, is attending Mizzou on a full Sinquefield Scholarship from the Mizzou New Music Initiative. He previously has received awards for his music from the Music Teachers National…