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MU School of Music’s saxophone instructor, Professor Leo Saguiguit, is honored to be among one of 8 people to receive the 2016 Faculty-Alumni Award. The awards, begun in 1968, recognize the achievements of faculty and alumni. Faculty are...
Esterhazy Quartet performing at
Berklee College of Music
in David Friend Hall
For the last twenty years, MU’s faculty string ensemble-in-residence, the Esterhazy Quartet, has traveled to Berklee College of Music in Boston for their annual guest residency focusing on new music for string quartet. The residency began...
10/19/2016
MU's School of Music is proud to have three faculty ensembles in residence: Missouri Quintet (Woodwind), Mizzou Brass (Brass), and Esterhazy Quartet (Strings). Two of these ensembles will be presenting recitals this Homecoming weekend. ...
October 2016
This past summer, MU School of Music faculty member Julie Rosenfeld was selected to receive a 2016 SEC Travel Grant. She traveled with her colleague and fortepiano collaborator, Janice Wenger to the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South...
GRAMMY AWARD WINNING ENSEMBLE, CHANTICLEER, COMING TO MU WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 2016
The MU School of Music is delighted to welcome grammy award winning vocal ensemble, Chanticleer, to campus this Wednesday, October 5. Chanticleer, called “the...
September 2016
After auditioning in March, senior vocal major Kai Manning, (BA '17), has been selected to sing the national anthem at the Kansas City Royals home baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 27th. Manning, a Kansas City native, is very excited for this...
Ted Arthur began his studies at MU in Fall 2004, double majoring in Journalism and Music. Ted was an excellent student at MU where he developed both of his areas of expertise and learned so much from his instructors and fellow classmates....
front row: Amazon Cello Choir
back row: Jennifer Pilz, Executive Director of Missouri Partners of the Americas; Dr. Eli Lara, MU Assistant Professor of Cello; Ms. Eva Szekely, MU School of Music Director of International Programs, Professor of Violin; Dr. Aureo deFreitas, Director, Amazon Cello Choir; Dr. Linda Kruger, founding member of Brazilian string project
photos by Tina England
What a treat it has been to welcome the Amazon Cello Choir to the MU School of Music this week. It has also been exceptionally exciting to welcome back two very important and influential alums, Dr. Linda Kruger (BM '...
2016
(pictured, clockwise) Leigh Munoz, Julia Bentley, Phillip Sink and Wes Warnhoff, are featured in the 2016 New Faculty Recital on September 26, 2016 at 7:30 PM.
MU School of Music is proud to welcome several new faculty this school year. Several of them will make their recital debut in a New Faculty Recital to be held Monday, September 26, 2016 (details located at end of article). New faculty...
August 2016
In April 2017, Dr. Janice Wenger presented concerts of American solo piano music in Taiwan and China. She performed at the Chinese Cultural University in Taipei, Taiwan and at the Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu, China where she also presented...