Pop-Up Concert #1: Khemia

Outside Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream, 21 S. 9th St. • 1:00 PM

New music on the streets (well, sidewalks) of Columbia! Members of Khemia Ensemble -- flutist Elizabeth Robinson, clarinetist Thiago Ancelmo de Souza, violinist Er-Gene Kahng, and soprano Amy Petrongelli -- perform the first of two free pop-up concerts in downtown Columbia, on 9th St. outside of Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream.

Program includes:

• Lembit Beecher, It's a Paradoxical Thing
• Heitor Villa-Lobos, Chorôs no. 2
• Ellen Harrison, All One Can Imagine
• Bruno Mantovani, Bug
• Bjarne Brustad, Trollkvenna

Opening Concert: Alarm Will Sound

Missouri Theatre • 7:30 PM

“One of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene.” – The New York Times

MICF ensemble-in-residence Alarm Will Sound performs the festival's opening concert. Program includes:

• Amy Beth Kirsten, Jacob in Chains*
• Stefan Freund, con/influences
• Donnacha Dennehy, The Hunger**

* world premiere, commissioned by the Mizzou International Composers Festival and Alarm Will Sound

** concert version (world premiere)

Featured Guest Performers:

• Richard Crawford: Jacob, Jacob in Chains
• Katherine Manley: Asenath Nicholson, The Hunger
• Iarla O'Lionaird: Man, The Hunger

Bels Lontano (co-presented with Dismal Niche)

Cafe Berlin, 220 N. 10th St. • 9:30 PM

Electronic artist Bels Lontano -- aka MU composition faculty member Bret Bohman -- performs a late-night set mixing original music with electronic works Mizzou composers and MICF resident composers.

Inspired by an eclectic range of musical and non-musical sources, Bels Lontano explores concepts of liminal spaces, natural beauty, therapy, and personal growth through the creation of rich sonic tapestries and melodic beat music stemming from the traditions of IDM, hip-hop, contemporary classical, and ambient.

Pop-Up Concert #2: Khemia

Uprise Bakery, 10 Hitt St. • 1:00 PM

Enjoy some new music with your lunch, as Khemia Ensemble percussionists Chelsea Tinsler Jones and Shane Jones perform the second of two free pop-up concerts in downtown Columbia, inside Uprise Bakery.

Program includes:
• Tim Peterson, Duet for Body Percussion
• Andy Akiho, Karakurenai
• Tom Johnson, Counting Duets
• John Cage, Living Room Music (with Amy Petrongelli and Cole Anderson)

Mizzou New Music Ensemble, DRAX and Mizzou Percussion

Missouri Theatre • 7:30 PM

The Mizzou New Music Ensemble, DRAX, and Mizzou Percussion perform works by Mizzou faculty and student composers and MICF guest and resident composers.

The Mizzou New Music Ensemble's program includes:

• Donnacha Dennehy, The Blotting
• Amy Beth Kirsten, World Under Glass no. 2
• Jack Snelling, City Swing

DRAX's program includes:

• Carolina Heredia, Soledad

Mizzou Percussion's program includes:

• Inti Logan Figgis-Vizueta, to give you form and breath
• Annika Socolofsky, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
• Amy Beth Kirsten, They Might Be Giants

Eli Keszler (co-presented with Dismal Niche)

Firestone Baars Chapel, 1306 E. Walnut St. • 9:30 PM

MICF is proud to partner with Columbia-based experimental music organization Dismal Niche to present NYC-based percussionist/composer Eli Keszler.

"For more than a decade, experimental percussionist and sound artist Eli Keszler has dismantled the idea of what a drum can be and how it should sound." -- Pitchfork

"Eli Keszler's music occupies a unique but imaginative space on the experimental music landscape." -- PopMatters

Khemia Ensemble

Whitmore Recital Hall • 11:00 AM

Multimedia chamber group Khemia Ensemble -- featuring MU faculty members Carolina Heredia, Bret Bohman, and Eli Lara -- perform a program of works taken from their new season IDENTITY, including works by MICF resident composer Inti Figgis-Vizueta and Khemia Call for Scores winners Emma O'Halloran and Daniel Fawcett.

Program includes:

• Carolina Heredia, Negative Image
• Daniel Fawcett, Neoteric Air
• Andy Akiho, Kararuenai
• Inti Figgis-Vizueta, augment|amplify
• Patricia Martinez, los tiempos del alma
• Bret Bohman, Interlude
• Chris Cerrone, i will learn to love a person and then i will teach you and then we will know
• Emma O'Halloran, Constellations

Eight World Premieres

Missouri Theatre • 7:30 PM

More than 215 composers from around the world applied, the top eight are here! Alarm Will Sound performs world premieres by the festival's eight resident composers.

Program includes:

• Theo Chandler, Familiar Punchlines
• Inti Figgis-Vizueta, braiding on golden stoops
• Charles Halka, Fever Dream
• Chelsea Komschlies, Hexactinellida
• Aaron Mencher, Haworthia
• Nicole Murphy, Dust
• Peter Shin, dogwhistling
• Kristina Wolfe, A Curation of Finds