Welcome to the Plowman Chamber Music Competition

Plowman Chamber Music Competition is a biennial event, which takes place on odd-numbered years.
Due to the pandemic, the postponed 10th Plowman Competition will now take place March 25-26, 2023 in Columbia, Missouri.
The information to the next competition will be available in August 2022, however is expected to remain mostly similar to the details from the last competition currently posted here. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Co-presented by First Baptist Church in Columbia, Office of the President of the University of Missouri System and the MU School of Music, the Missouri Symphony and Odyssey Chamber Music Series, Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival invites students and music lovers nationwide to enjoy and learn from guest artists' master classes and recitals.
Due to the pandemic, the postponed 10th Plowman Competition will now take place March 25-26, 2023 in Columbia, Missouri.
The information to the next competition will be available in August 2022, however is expected to remain mostly similar to the details from the last competition currently posted here. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Co-presented by First Baptist Church in Columbia, Office of the President of the University of Missouri System and the MU School of Music, the Missouri Symphony and Odyssey Chamber Music Series, Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival invites students and music lovers nationwide to enjoy and learn from guest artists' master classes and recitals.
August 19, 2020
With the recent reveal of the Odyssey Chamber Music Series' Season 17, we sincerely regret we are postponing the 10th Plowman Chamber Music Competition to 2022 or 2023. This decision was a difficult one, because we live in a world where technology is fairly advanced enough, we could have considered a virtual competition.
But we believe Plowman Competition & Festival needs to be more than just the ensembles competing for the Grand Prize. It is equally about the mid-Missouri communities benefiting from interacting with you and the brilliant guest artists through master classes and performances, and we did not feel our virtual competition would fulfill our expectations.
We sincerely look forward to hearing your ensembles when it is safe to do so, and I hope you can look forward to another fulfilling competition events when you are able to come back to see us in Columbia, Missouri.
Please take care, and stay in touch.
Ayako Tsuruta
Founder & Artistic Director
With the recent reveal of the Odyssey Chamber Music Series' Season 17, we sincerely regret we are postponing the 10th Plowman Chamber Music Competition to 2022 or 2023. This decision was a difficult one, because we live in a world where technology is fairly advanced enough, we could have considered a virtual competition.
But we believe Plowman Competition & Festival needs to be more than just the ensembles competing for the Grand Prize. It is equally about the mid-Missouri communities benefiting from interacting with you and the brilliant guest artists through master classes and performances, and we did not feel our virtual competition would fulfill our expectations.
We sincerely look forward to hearing your ensembles when it is safe to do so, and I hope you can look forward to another fulfilling competition events when you are able to come back to see us in Columbia, Missouri.
Please take care, and stay in touch.
Ayako Tsuruta
Founder & Artistic Director