{"id":10851,"date":"2024-11-19T09:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2024-11-19T09:47:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:47:02","slug":"celebrating-an-original-voice-in-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2024\/11\/19\/celebrating-an-original-voice-in-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating an original voice in new music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/20241113_AS_Sinquefield-Award-Dinner_ANL-0032-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241113_AS_Sinquefield-Award-Dinner_ANL-0032-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"(Left to right) Provost Matt Martens, School of Music Director Jared Rawlings, Curator Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield, Giovanni Porfirio, Mizzou New Music Initiative Director Stefan Freund, Dean Cooper Drury and President Choi\" class=\"wp-image-10855\" style=\"width:350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Left to right) Provost Matt Martens, School of Music Director Jared Rawlings, Curator Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield, Giovanni Porfirio, Mizzou New Music Initiative Artistic Director Stefan Freund, Dean Cooper Drury and President Choi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/newmusic.missouri.edu\/perform\/sinquefield-composition-prize\">Sinquefield Composition Prize<\/a> is a prestigious award given each year to one Mizzou student for excellence in music composition. Last week, I joined Curator Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield, Provost Matthew Martens, College of Arts and Science Dean Cooper Drury and School of Music faculty at a reception announcing the 2025 winner: master\u2019s composition student, <a href=\"https:\/\/coas.missouri.edu\/news\/giovanni-porfirio-wins-2025-sinquefield-composition-prize\">Giovanni Porfirio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoyed hearing Giovanni describe his genre-spanning approach to composition as well as his musical influences. As part of the prize, Giovanni is commissioned to write a new, original work that will be performed by the University Philharmonic Orchestra and professionally recorded. It will premiere this February at the <a href=\"https:\/\/coas.missouri.edu\/chancellors-arts-showcase\">Chancellor\u2019s Arts Showcase<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou\u2019s music composition program is one of the best in the country, and we are grateful for the generous support of Curator Cairns Sinquefield, Rex Sinquefield and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. Their vision for the <a href=\"https:\/\/newmusic.missouri.edu\/\">Mizzou New Music Initiative (MNMI)<\/a> has made our campus a global destination for students like Giovanni and world-renowned faculty like <a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/guggenheim-fellow-is-newest-mizzouforward-faculty-member\/\">2024 Guggenheim Fellow Utku Asuroglu<\/a>. MNMI supports a range of ambitious programing, including the Sinquefield Composition Prize and the <a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/showcasing-a-world-of-music\/\">Mizzou International Composers Festival<\/a>, which has resulted in more than 1,250 new works produced over 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations again to Giovanni! I look forward to hearing how he, and our many talented Mizzou composers, create their own legacy and influence others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sinquefield Composition Prize is a prestigious award given each year to one Mizzou student for excellence in music composition. Last week, I joined Curator Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield, Provost Matthew Martens, College of Arts and Science Dean Cooper Drury and School of Music faculty at a reception announcing the 2025 winner: master\u2019s composition student, Giovanni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}