News
2017
In late October, 45 MU students and faculty attended the Kansas City Symphony concert featuring Shostakovich's Violin Conceto No. 1 and Dvorak's Symphony No. 8. Thanks to a generous gift to the College of Arts & Science by a Marching...
On October 18 in the Great Room of the Reynolds Alumni Center, Dr. Neil Minturn was awarded the 2017 Maxine Christopher Shutz Award for Distinguished Teaching. As a required part of the award and celebration, Dr. Minturn presented a lecture...
University of Missouri School of Music Post-Doctoral Fellow in Composition Carolina Heredia is the winner of the 2017 MTNA/MMTA Composer Commission Competition. Her prize is a $1,500 commission for a new work to be premiered in November 2018 at the...
Last April, the School of Music was notified that our flute professor, Alice Dade, was one of two recipients of the Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Research & Creative Activity Award. She was honored at a dinner October 24 hosted by...
Music at MU Pre-1917
One hundred years ago in the Fall of 1917, a music class at the University of Missouri could be listed on your official transcript as a course within a music major or minor, and the Department of Music was born. However...
Mizzou has been recognized as one of the top universities for its price by being named a Best Buy in the 2018 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges, a resource for parents and students in the U.S., U.K. and Canada for more than 30 years. ...

Dr. Neil Minturn
Maxine Christopher Shutz Award and Lecture for Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient
MU School of Music faculty members, Dr. Neil Minturn and Prof. Alice Dade, were recently awarded prestigious teaching awards.
Dr. Neil Minturn received the Maxine Christopher Shutz Award and Lecture for Distinguished Teaching Award. ...
Earlier this summer, Dr. Paul Crabb, Director of Choral Activities for the MU School of Music, traveled to the Conservatorio di Musica Domenico Cimarosa in Avellino, Italy for a unique and special project. In 2012, the two schools developed an...
In January, 2017, we posted the an article about three of our students receiving first place in the MTNA West Central Division competition in Boulder, CO. Those students advanced to compete and place in the national competition March 18-22,...
2018
2020-2021 Events
Mizzou Virtual Jazz Fest - Although we are unable to offer our traditional in-person jazz festival, this year we are hosting a virtual festival to still provide your students with a meaningful experience! ...