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Classical 08/10/2020

Mizzou International Composers Festival Set For July 26 - 31, 2021; Applications For Resident Composers Now Open

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Mizzou International Composers Festival Set For July 26 - 31, 2021; Applications For Resident Composers Now Open
New York, NY (Top40 Charts / Mizzou New Music Initiative) The Mizzou New Music Initiative is accepting applications for resident composers to take part in the 2021 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF), which will take place starting Monday, July 26 through Saturday, July 31.

Reprising their roles from the online-only 2020 edition of the MICF, Chen Yi and David T. Little will serve as the festival's two distinguished guest composers for 2021, teaching and consulting with the resident composers and ensemble. Little also has written a new commissioned work specifically for the festival.

The week-long MICF will feature concerts of music from contemporary composers, along with workshops, master classes, and other events. Saturday night's grand finale at the Missouri Theatre in Columbia will present the world premieres of new works from each of the festival's 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 take part in rehearsals with Alarm Will Sound. Each composer also will receive a professional live recording of their work.

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

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.

The deadline to apply to become a resident composer for the 2021 Mizzou International Composers Festival is 11:59 p.m. Central time, Friday, November 20, 2020. For more information or to submit an application, please visit https://app.getacceptd.com/mizzou.

Chen Yi 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.

David T. 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.

A complete schedule of events, times, dates, and venues for the 2021 Mizzou International Composers Festival (https://composersfestival.missouri.edu/) will be made available at a later date. For more information, please visit https://composersfestival.missouri.edu/.

The Mizzou International Composers Festival is part of the Mizzou New Music Initiative (https://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 (https://www.sinquefieldcharitablefoundation.com/).

For more information:
Mizzou International Composers Festival
https://composersfestival.missouri.edu/
Mizzou New Music Initiative
https://mizzounewmusic.missouri.edu/
Alarm Will Sound
https://www.alarmwillsound.com/
Chen Yi
https://www.presser.com/chen-yi
David T. Little
https://davidtlittle.com/
Sinquefield Charitable Foundation
https://www.sinquefieldcharitablefoundation.com/






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