UMKC Composers' Guild

05/14/2026

Hi composer friends!👊🤩👊

This academic year has come to an end! We hope the Composers’ Guild brought you a wonderful and inspiring year of music, events, and community.

A huge thank you to this year’s Guild officers for all their hard work and dedication! ❤️

We’re also excited to welcome the new Guild officers next academic year and look forward to everything they will bring to our community.😋

Please continue to support us, and stay tuned for more exciting things to come! ✨
UMKC Conservatory AlumniUMKC Composers' GuildUMKC Conservatory

05/08/2026

Come support UMKC Conservatory Dance Program’s Tides & Waves!

This beautiful dance concert is choreographed by the junior class, and it features music by our amazing composers:

Katie Gorman
Quanzhong Deng
Aiden Levendofsky
Yunfei Li
Kade Slayton
John Zhu
Colin Monaghan

📅 May 9th
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 B&B Theatres Shawnee 18
16301 Midland Dr, Shawnee, KS 66217

Please come support the dancers and composers!!
It’s going to be such a beautiful night of movement, sound, and waves 🌊！
UMKC Conservatory Alumni UMKC Composers' Guild UMKC Conservatory

04/30/2026

Hi friends!!

Please come hear some brand-new music by our amazing underclassmen composers!! 👊👊👊

UNDERCLASSMEN COMPOSERS’ RECITAL
May 8th, 7:00 PM
Diastole Scholars’ Center
2501 Holmes Street

Come support these wonderful composers and celebrate a night of fresh, creative, and probably slightly chaotic new music!!

See you there!! 😊😊😊

Poster design by Aiden Levendofsky
Artwork by Clyfford Still
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04/29/2026

And later that same evening, we had an incredible concert:
Chamber Music Composition Competition and Composers’ Guild Concert No. 7

Huge thanks to Crossroads Saxophone Quartet for their wonderful performance!!!! 🎷✨

Bravo to the first-prize-winning work Lilt by Edmund Song, the second-prize-winning work Edge of the Wilds by Zexuan DingZexuan Ding, and all the other wonderful works submitted to the competition!!! ❤️❤️❤️

We still have more exciting concerts and events coming before the semester ends, so please stay tuned and come support us!! 💪💪
UMKC Conservatory AlumniUMKC Composers' GuildUMKC Conservatory

04/29/2026

Hi friends!!

Are we ready for final week? You are all amazing!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Before we jump into the end of the semester, let’s look back at an exciting and wonderful week! We had so many great events.

Last Friday afternoon, we were so happy to hear a fantastic lecture by UMKC alumnus and composer Mikel Rouse. He shared many inspiring stories and experiences from his compositional journey with our composers, and we were deeply inspired by his talk!

Thank you all for your support!
UMKC Conservatory AlumniUMKC Composers' GuildUMKC Conservatory

04/21/2026

Hi my composer friends!!

DO NOT miss this Friday night!!👊👊👊
It’s the last Composers’ Guild concert of the semester and it’s also the Chamber Music Composition Competition + Composers’ Guild Concert No. 7!!

Friday, April 24, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
James C. Olson Performing Arts Center
White Recital Hall

A big thank you to Crossroads Saxophone Quartet for bringing us what is sure to be an amazing performance!!

Please come support us!!
It’s going to be such a fun and wild night of music
See you Friday!!🔜🔜🔜
UMKC Composers' Guild UMKC ConservatoryUMKC Conservatory Alumni

04/17/2026

Join us for an exciting workshop! We would love to see you there!❤️

UMKC Conservatory is Thrilled to Welcome World Renown Composer and UMKC Alum Mikel Rouse to Campus

Mikel Rouse returns to his alma mater, the UMKC Conservatory, to workshop his new piece "One Boy's Day."

Join us April 22nd, 23rd, and 24th at 7PM in Grant Hall 107 at the UMKC Conservatory for a dynamic, in-process exploration of this ambitious work—where the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

04/11/2026

Our amazing composer, Kwan Leung Ling! His Chinese orchestral piece will be on air tonight—tune in! 👊👊👊

Cadenzas of Hong Kong 2.0
香江華采 2.0
11/4 (Sat 六) 8pm

The 香港中樂團 Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and the HKCG Hong Kong Composers' Guild 香港作曲家聯會 jointly present this performance, using the enchanting sounds of Chinese music to narrate stories of Hong Kong. In addition to the open call for compositions, the concert has commissioned three renowned local composers — Chan Wing-wah, Hui Cheung-wai, and Alfred Wong — to create brand-new works. This collaboration brings together composers from different generations, fostering a vibrant exchange of ideas through music. The selected works are: ‘Chanticleer’ by Chen Shuaike, ‘Lantern Lights’ by Ling Kwan Leung, and ‘Ging1 Zik6’ by Jero Leung. Yan Huichang conducts.

Recorded live on 13/3/2026 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University Jockey Club Auditorium.

香港中樂團與香港作曲家聯會再度攜手，以扣人心弦的中樂聲韻，細訴城中的動人故事。音樂會除了公開徵集作品外，亦特別委約三位本地作曲家——陳永華、許翔威及黃學揚——創作全新樂曲，讓跨世代的音樂人齊集一堂，讓不同世代的創作人透過音樂交流對話，展現多元而充滿活力的創作面貌。音樂會入選作品包括：陳帥克《司晨》、凌君亮《燈火》，以及梁俊灝《驚蟄》。音樂會由藝術總監閻惠昌親自執棒，於2026年3月13日在香港理工大學賽馬會綜藝館舉行，第四台現場錄音轉播。

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝟒
四台音樂會
Listen online 網上收聽：
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio4/programme/concerton4/episode/1086440/

#香港電台 #第四台 #四台音樂會 #香江華采

03/14/2026

Hi friends! Composers’ Guild Concert No. 6 is coming!🤨

📍 White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center
🕢 March 17th (Tuesday), 7:30 PM

This concert features an exciting blend of Chinese and Western instruments. Huge thanks to Xinrui Zhang, our amazing erhu soloist, for bringing this beautiful sound to the stage!

We can’t wait to share new music by UMKC composers with you.
Come support us! We would love to see you there!👊👊👊
UMKC Conservatory UMKC Composers' Guild