News
May 2017
MU School of Music’s Dr. Michael Budds has been awarded the Campus Writing Program’s Writing Intensive Teaching Excellence Award. The award recognizes contributions to outstanding Writing Intensive teaching on MU’s campus. Nominees are...
As the academic year draws to a close, the School of Music recognizes some of our student’s achievements. These include papers being accepted at conferences and/or published, job placements, and acceptance at graduate schools. ...
This Spring, Dr. Brian Silvey, Associate Professor of Music Education, along with four other University of Missouri faculty members, was awarded the Graduate Professional Council Gold Chalk Award. The award recognizes University of Missouri...
2017
For 65 years, Mizzou has opened its doors to the State Music Festival, coordinated by the Missouri State High School Activities Association. The festival brings 10,000 potential Tigers to campus as well as family members and music teachers...
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...
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...
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...