Mizzou Music: Dan Visconti

By Trevor Harris

Published July 14, 2017 at 9:24 AM CDT

American composer Dan Visconti stays busy with commissions, musical installations and lectures. He will be a guest composer for the 2017 Mizzou International Composers Festival. On a recent episode of Mizzou Music, Visconti talked about his community work as a concert curator and his works that will be performed at the July 24-29 festival in Columbia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtxLp_Iu8xs

This interview originally aired on July 12, 2017.

New episodes of Mizzou Music air each Wednesday at 6:00 pm. on Classical 90.5.

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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.

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