The passionate amateur musician and head of the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, Jeanne Sinquefield, has bankrolled the University of Missouri at Columbia with a $1 million gift to create the Mizzou New Music Initiative, a diverse array of programs intended to position the school as a leading center for music composition and new music. Sinquefield sees the Mizzou New Music Initiative as a groundbreaking effort to help spur creativity among young composers. The program complements a statewide competition called COMP (Creating Original Music Competition), funded by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation and aimed at students from kindergarten through high school. Among the components of the Mizzou New Music Initiative is the New Music Summer Festival, which will feature eight to 10 composers from around the world creating a composition to be performed by Alarm Will Sound, an internationally acclaimed new music ensemble. For more information please contact Mark Bretz at 314-838-9371 or mark@bretzpr.com.

Tags: Alarm Will Sound, Jeanne Sinquefield, Mark Bretz, perform, Sinquefield Charitable Foundation

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 6:00 am and is filed under Daily, Green. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.