Announcing 2013 Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival!

I am always thrilled whenever Plowman competition is on the horizon, but  wait 'til April 2013 - we are pulling all the stops to make 2013 Plowman Festival your unforgettable weekend destination!

Co-presented by Odyssey (that's us), First Baptist Church, the University of Missouri School of Music and Missouri Symphony Society, 2013 Plowman Competition will be Competition AND Festival, featuring not just one, but TWO judges in a recital and a lecture too.

The 2013 Plowman Judges are:

Frederic Chiu, piano

Randy Gardner, horn

Peter Wiley, violoncello

An outline of schedule:

April 4 (Thu) 7pm at First Baptist Church (FBC) - Plowman Commencement and Frederic Chiu, piano

April 5 (Fri) 7pm at FBC - Odyssey & the New Music Initiative present the Verdehr Trio

April 6 (Sat) 9:30am-5:30pm at FBC - Plowman Semi-Finals (15 ensembles)

April 7 (Sun) 1:30pm at Missouri Theatre - Plowman Finals Concert

* Awards Ceremony venue TBA

April 8 (Mon) 7pm - Plowman and other sponsors TBA present Peter Wiley, cello and Anna Polonsky, piano

There will be lectures and master classes scheduled throughout the long weekend. This information will be posted sometime in June, so keep checking back to our web site!

(This is SOOOOO exciting!!)

Ayako