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2017
School of Music piano technician, Lucy Urlacher, tests out the freshly painted street piano
Photo credit: Tina England
In hundreds of cities across the globe, one can walk down the street and encounter a beautifully painted, bright piano. The global phenomena began in 2008 in the United Kingdom in an effort to encourage strangers to stop and enjoy a little...
On a High Note
MU music students to take the stage in Show-Me Opera’s performance of “Our Town”
Posted on February 28, 2017 by Caroline Dohack
Though set in a very specific time and place, there’s an almost...
Guest Conductor Damien Sneed with Masters of Music student Bruno Bastos Do Nascimento
Photo by Bachelors of Music in Music Education student James Shemwell
In 2008, nine-time Grammy Award winner Wynton Marsalis was commissioned to compose a piece of music commemorating the 200th anniversary of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church. This Thursday evening, April 20, 2017, MU’s Choral Union, University...
Júlia Coelho
MU School of Music graduate student Júlia Coelho (MM-Vocal Performance and MA-Musicology, ’17) will travel to Italy this summer to present her paper, “Claudio Monteverdi e La Favola d’Orfeo: Character Construction and Depiction of Emotion”, at the...
March 2017
February 2017
Congratulations to Third Coast Percussion, a Chicago-based percussion quartet, on their first Grammy win for the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for their album, Steve Reich. They were invited to perform at the Grammy Premiere...
January 2017
photo by Dale Lloyd; Gentry Middle School 8th Grade Band performing pre-MMEA concert at the Missouri Theatre on January 22
Three Columbia music ensembles – all with connections to the MU School of Music – were selected to perform this past week at the 79th Missouri Music Educator’s Association (MMEA) In-Service Conference down in Osage Beach. Every January, almost...
MU Honors Guitar Quartet performing at The Benton Country Club in St. Joseph, Missouri.
In 2010, just one year after the establishment of the University’s first classical guitar program, guitar professor Anthony Glise founded the MU Honors Guitar Quartet. This elite group of guitar majors were pleased to have the opportunity to travel...
Left to Right: Cassandra Gal, Sarah Amos, Samuel Wright, Christine Seitz
The MU School of Music’s Show-Me Opera was chosen from a nation-wide pool of applicants to compete in the Opera Scenes Competition held by the National Opera Association (NOA) at the convention held in Santa Barbara, CA on January 5, 2017. Soprano...
In August 2016, one of the School of Music’s graduate percussion students, Rebecca McDaniel, traveled to Governors Island in New York to participate in the Rite of Summer Music Festival. She had been invited to perform in John Luther Adams’...