COLUMBIA, Mo., Oct. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mizzou New
Music Initiative is accepting applications for resident composers
to take part in the tenth annual Mizzou International Composers
Festival (MICF), which will be held Monday,
July 22 through Saturday, July 27,
2019 on the campus of the University of
Missouri in Columbia.
In celebration of the festival's tenth year, Donnacha Dennehy
and Amy Beth Kirsten will return to
the MICF to serve as the two distinguished guest composers for
2019, teaching and consulting with the resident composers and
ensemble.
Dennehy, considered one of Ireland's top living composers, was a guest
composer at the MICF in 2012, while Kirsten, a member of the
composition faculty of the Longy School of
Music of Bard College, was part
of the festival's first group of resident composers in 2010.
The MICF features three public concerts of music from
contemporary composers, as well as workshops, master classes, and
other events. As in years past, Saturday night's grand finale at
the Missouri Theatre will present the world premieres of new works
from each of the eight resident composers, with Alarm Will Sound,
conducted by artistic director Alan
Pierson, serving as resident ensemble.
The resident composers are selected for the MICF each year
through an online portfolio application process. During the
festival, they'll get composition lessons from the distinguished
guest composers and Mizzou faculty, and take part in rehearsals
with Alarm Will Sound. Each composer also will receive a
professional live recording of their work.
The deadline to apply to become a resident composer for the 2019
Mizzou International Composers Festival is 5:00 p.m. Central time, Friday, November 16, 2018. For more information
or to submit an application, please visit
https://app.getacceptd.com/mizzou.
A complete schedule of events, times, dates and venues for the
2019 Mizzou International Composers Festival will be made available
at a later date. For more information, please visit
http://composersfestival.missouri.edu/.
The Mizzou International Composers Festival is part of the
Mizzou New Music Initiative (http://mizzounewmusic.missouri.edu/),
an array of programs positioning the University of Missouri School of Music as a leading
center in the areas of composition and new music. The Mizzou
New Music Initiative is the direct result of the generous support
of Dr. Jeanne and Mr. Rex
Sinquefield and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation
(http://www.sinquefieldcharitablefoundation.com/).
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