Two Columbia classical music composers were selected to participate in the 2026 Missouri Composers Project competition for their new orchestral musical compositions, according to a news release from the MU New Music Initiative.<\/p>\n
The competition has two categories: orchestral and choral compositions. Each category is split into two age divisions, “open” and “high school.” The competition is open to composers across the state.<\/p>\n
Renan Reis Leme, the current Director of Orchestras at Hickman High School, won the Open Orchestral category for his composition called “Adagio y Fuga Porte\u00f1a.” Gilbert Gavin Slade Bach, a junior at Rock Bridge High School, earned a honorable mention in the High School Orchestral category for his composition, “Marcia Funebre.”<\/p>\n
The two are among four winners and four honorable mentions in the competition.<\/p>\n
All of the winning and honorable mention compositions will be performed and professionally recorded by the Columbia Civic Orchestra and Premiere Vocal Artists at 7:30 p.m. on March 8 at Broadway Christian Church in Columbia. The concert is free to attend and open to the public.<\/p>\n
The four winners will also receive a $500 honorarium from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.komu.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two Columbia classical music composers were selected to participate in the 2026 Missouri Composers Project competition for their new orchestral musical compositions, according to a news release from the MU New Music Initiative. The competition has two categories: orchestral and choral compositions. Each category is split into two age divisions, “open” and “high school.” The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2279824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[441515],"class_list":["post-2279823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-midmissourinews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Two-Columbia-composers-win-Best-New-Orchestral-Music-Mid-Missouri.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279825,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279823\/revisions\/2279825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}