Marquez-Barrios to Premiere Newly Commissioned Work

As winner of the 2024 Missouri Music Teachers Association Composer Commission Competition, Victor E. Marquez-Barrios, associate professor of music was commissioned to write a new work.

In collaboration with Michael Bump, professor of music, Marquez-Barrios wrote a new piece for percussion quintet titled “Chattering Mind/Loving Heart.” This piece will premiere at 7 p.m. Nov. 9 at the University of Missouri’s Sinquefield Music Center in Columbia.

The members of Truman’s Percussion Ensemble in charge of the performance are Brianna Carr, Angel Evans, Archie Gillespie, Turner Petersen and Tyler Nuspl.

Marquez-Barrios and Bump will also travel to Columbia with them for the premiere. In addition, Marquez-Barrios will be in residency at University of Missouri Nov. 8 to speak to members of the composition studio, and for a rehearsal with Mizzou’s New Music Ensemble, who will be playing another one of his compositions at their fall recital.