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Mizzou International Composers Festival Announces Resident Composers for 2021


COLUMBIA, Mo., Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI) has selected four resident composers to participate in the 2021 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF). 

Presented by MNMI and the University of Missouri School of Music from Monday, July 26 through Saturday, July 31 in Columbia, the twelfth annual MICF (http://composersfestival.missouri.edu/) will feature world premieres of new works written by each of the selected composers. Listed with their current places of residence, they are:

* Ana Paola Santillán Alcocer ? Mexico City, Mexico (https://www.anapaolasa.com/)
* Daniel Fitzpatrick ? Columbia, MO
* Paul Mortilla ? Coral Gables, FL
* Nina Shekhar ? Princeton, NJ (http://ninashekhar.com/)

These four composers will be featured in the 2021 MICF along with the eight composers who were chosen for the 2020 festival, but whose works could not be premiered when COVID-related restrictions forced the festival to be reconfigured as an online event.

Those composers are Yu Kuwabara (Tokyo, Japan), Pascal Le Boeuf (New York, NY), Shuying Li (Spokane, WA), Celka Ojakangas (Los Angeles, CA), DM R (Diana M. Rodriguez) (New York, NY), Niko Schroeder (Columbia, MO), Andrew Tholl (Los Angeles, CA), and Felipe Tovar-Henao (Bloomington, IN).

The premieres of the new works from all 12 composers will be presented during festival week in two concerts, six per concert, along with music by the distinguished guest composers. However, because the COVID pandemic makes future conditions difficult to predict, MNMI will have several contingent plans for the 2021 MICF if safety concerns, University policy, or state or local laws make it impossible to present the festival "in-person" on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Those plans may include (but are not limited to) an online-only festival, a limited in-person experience, or some combination of online and in-person activities, such as additional concerts featuring music from the guest composers and other contemporary creators, workshops, master classes, and other events.

The Festival's distinguished guest composers for 2021 will be Chen Yi and David T. Little. Chen is a distinguished professor of composition at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. A finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition "Si Ji" ("Four Seasons"), she was born and raised in Guangzhou, China and is known as a prolific composer who blends Chinese and Western traditions, transcending cultural and musical boundaries.

Little currently chairs the composition program at Mannes - The New School in New York City. He previously served as Executive Director of MATA and on the board of directors at Chamber Music America, and from 2014?2017 was composer-in-residence with Opera Philadelphia and Music-Theatre Group.

The acclaimed new music group Alarm Will Sound, conducted by artistic director Alan Pierson, once again will serve as resident ensemble, as they have since the MICF began in 2010. 

During the festival, the resident composers will receive composition lessons from Chen and Little and, if conditions permit, take part in rehearsals with Alarm Will Sound. The composers also will give public presentation on their music, and after the premiere performance, will receive professional live recordings of their new works.

A complete schedule of events, times, dates and venues for the 2021 Mizzou International Composers Festival will be announced 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/).

For more information:

Mizzou International Composers Festival: http://composersfestival.missouri.edu/
Mizzou New Music Initiative: http://mizzounewmusic.missouri.edu/
Sinquefield Charitable Foundation: http://www.sinquefieldcharitablefoundation.com/

Ana Paola Santillán Alcocer: https://www.anapaolasa.com/
Nina Shekhar: http://ninashekhar.com/

Yu Kuwabara: https://3shimai.com/yu/index_Eng.html
Pascal Le Boeuf: http://www.pascalmusic.com/
Shuying Li: https://www.shuyingli.com/
Celka Ojakangas: https://www.celka.net/
DM R (Diana M. Rodriguez):  https://music.columbia.edu/bios/diana-m-rodriguez
Niko Schroeder: https://nikodschroeder.com/
Andrew Tholl: http://www.andrewtholl.com/
Felipe Tovar-Henao: https://www.felipe-tovar-henao.com/

Alarm Will Sound: http://www.alarmwillsound.com/
Chen Yi: https://www.presser.com/chen-yi
David T. Little: https://davidtlittle.com

Media contact:
Jacob Gotlib
[email protected]
(573) 884-9478

 

SOURCE Mizzou New Music Initiative


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