St. Louis Symphony Orchestra musicians perform in the chamber series that they curate at the Sheldon venue. Photo courtesy of SLSO.
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In Wednesday’s (4/16) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Rosalind Early writes, “When the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performs at the Sheldon on April 24, the concert will include a world premiere from composer Yoell Tewolde, a sophomore at University of Missouri-Columbia [Mizzou]. Tewolde wrote the piece, ‘Waves on the Shore’ as part of Mizzou’s New Music Initiative. Students in Mizzou’s composition program apply to get the chance to hear their pieces played by SLSO musicians. ‘This is my first time working with musicians from a symphony orchestra,’ Tewolde says. ‘The musicians are really high caliber, so it’s very exciting.’… Tewolde straddles the classical and jazz worlds. He first came to music through classical piano, which he started in second grade. In seventh grade, he started playing the saxophone … Tewolde found out that he’d be contributing a piece to the SLSO concert series last fall and started working on it in a composition class … at Mizzou…. Everyone in the New Music Initiative writes a new piece…. In addition to Tewolde’s piece, [on April 24] the symphony ensemble will play pieces from Ravel, Poulenc, Florent Schmitt, Giles Silvestrini and Germaine Tailleferre…. From January through April, the SLSO has been playing the new compositions from different students in its Live at the Sheldon concert series.”
St. Louis Symphony and Mizzou New Music Initiative Support Work of Student Composers – symphony.org
