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Mizzou Music: Creating Original Music Program

Ethan Forte
Recent Rock Bridge High School graduate Ethan Forte was a guest on Mizozu Music.

The Creating Original Music Program is a week-long intensive course for young composers. The program welcomed another class of aspiring young composers to the MU campus earlier this summer for a one-week intensive course in making new music. Two of this years participants were Columbia's Ethan Forte and Adam Cohen from St. Louis. Forte and Cohen were guests on Mizzou Music.

Credit University of Missouri School of Music
The 2015 Creating Original Music Program class.

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From a recent Mizzou Music broadcast, young composer Adam Cohen talks about his introductions to writing music and the realization that he might be good enough to make music his career.

This program originally aired on Wednesday, July 13, 2016.

Listen for new epsiodes of Mizzou Music each Wednesday on Classical 90.5 FM.

Credit Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen participated in the Creating Original Music Program this summer on the MU campus. He was a guest on Mizzou Music.

Trevor serves as KBIA’s weekday morning host for classical music. He has been involved with local radio since 1990, when he began volunteering as a music and news programmer at KOPN, Columbia's community radio station. Before joining KBIA, Trevor studied social work at Mizzou and earned a masters degree in geography at the University of Alabama. He has worked in community development and in urban and bicycle/pedestrian planning, and recently served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zambia with his wife, Lisa Groshong. An avid bicycle commuter and jazz fan, Trevor has cycled as far as Colorado and pawed through record bins in three continents.