University Features New Horizons Music Festival

The 16th edition of the New Horizons Music Festival will present two days of contemporary music, six concerts and performers from around the West and the Midwest. Sponsored by the University and Sigma Alpha Iota, the festival will take place Oct. 24-25 on Truman’s campus.

The festival includes music from most of the major genres in modern performance including chamber groups, multimedia, solo performers, large ensembles and theatrical performances by composers and writers from around the United States and Europe. The concerts and gallery exhibition focus on contemporary music that leverages the techniques of the classical musician while simultaneously looking to the future.

Guest composer Amy X Neuburg will perform electric and eclectic cabaret music accompanied by her own unique blend of technologies that involve electronic percussion and live looping. At the close of the festival, the Truman Percussion Ensemble will also feature a newly commissioned work by Neuburg.

Digital Smorgasbord
8 p.m.
Oct. 24
Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall

New Improvisation
1:30 p.m.
Oct. 25
Instrumental Room 2340

Pincushioned
2:45 p.m.
Oct. 25
Instrumental Room 2340

New Music-Theater
4 p.m.
Oct. 25
Severns Theatre

Amy X Neuburg
6:30 p.m.
Oct. 25
Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall

A short conversation with Amy
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 25
Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall

New ensemble works
8 p.m.
Oct. 25
Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit nhmf.truman.edu or email newhorizonsmusicfestival@gmail.com.