The judges have chosen their Semi-Finalist ensembles! Everyone will be contacted in the next 24 hours via e-mail. After the confirmation of your participation, the Semi-Finalist ensembles will be revealed after the weekend. Thank you very much for your participation! We thoroughly enjoyed listening and watching your performances. We cannot wait to hear your live concert in April!

Jasper String Quartet (Plowman 2008) won the 2016 Fischoff Educator Award!! We are SO excited for them. Hear about the award and how JSQ is doing here:

http://www.fischoff.org/news/jasper-string-quartet-wins-2016-educator-award/

This just in: "Very excited to announce that QuinTexas won the Wind Prize in the 2015 Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition!"

GRAND PRIZE ($5000) - Cardinal Winds, from USC in Los Angeles
FIRST PRIZE ($2000) in Piano/Strings - Quartet Tito, from Chicago, IL
FIRST PRIZE ($2000) in Winds, Brass & Percussion - The Kyodai Brass, from CIM in OH
HONORABLE MENTION ($500) - QuinTexas from UT of Austin, and Pavo Quartet from DePaul University in Chicago, IL

AUDIENCE PRIZE ($200) was awarded to Quartet Tito
JUDGES SPECIAL RECOGNITION to Stellio Trio, from Northwestern in IL and Hathor Winds, from Boston, MA
Odyssey Music @ Lenoir Woods - Deciduous Trio (harp-va-fl.), from Rice University in Houston, TX

Congratulations to Semi-Finalists #5 String Quartet, #8 QuinTexas, #11 String Quartet, #14 Brass Quintet and #15 Piano Sextet (Piano & Woodwind Quintet)!

Please join us in congratulating them in the Finals this afternoon at 1:30pm, Missouri Theatre in Columbia, Missouri. Tickets are available for purchase $25 / $10 Student, which includes reception immediately after the performances, as the jury deliberates.

This phenomenal showdown comes with equally fantastic, diverse program this year. Hope to see you soon!
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Odyssey Chamber Music Series, First Baptist Church of Columbia,
MU School of Music and Missouri Symphony Society

Present

The 7th Plowman Chamber Music Competition
The Finals & Award Ceremony
March 22, 2015 - 1:30 pm
Missouri Theatre - Columbia, Missouri

1:30pm           1. Brass Quintet
Holborne: Elizabethan Dance Suite (unknown) 
Almand
Pavan 
Gigue

Collier Jones: Four Movements for Five Brass (1957)
Introduction 
Pretentions
Waltz
Finale

Ewald: Quintet No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 5 (1890)
Adagio- Allegro Vivace- Adagio
Allegro Moderato  

Druckman: Dances with Shadows (1990) 


2:00pm      2. String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77 No. 1, Hob.III:81 (1802)
I. Allegro
III. Menuetto

Tower: Night Fields (1994)


2:30pm      3. Woodwind Quintet
Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31 (1956) 

Nielsen: Quintet, Op. 41 (1922)
Allegro ben moderato )

Mozart: Serenade in C minor, K. 388 (1782), arr. Mordecai Rechtman
I. Allegro                                   
IV. Allegro


~ Intermission ~


3:15pm             4.  String Quartet
Janáček : String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata” (1923) 
I. Adagio - con moto
II. Con moto

Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 50 No. 2 (1787) 
Adagio. Cantabile
Finale. Vivace assai

Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80 (1847)
Allegro vivace assai



3:45pm  5. Piano Sextet (Piano & Woodwind Quintet)
Poulenc: Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano in C Major, FP 100 (1932-1963)
I. Allegro vivace

Thuille: Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet, Op. 6 (1888)
II. Larghetto
III. Gavotte. Andane, quasi Allegretto
IV. Finale. Molto vivace


After the Reception, Award Ceremony will Follow.

We have been enjoying listening to the Preliminary DVD auditions! The result of the anonymous ensembles will be posted on our web site within the first week of March, after all the contestants have nee contacted.

*NEW* You can now purchase the tickets to the Finals & Award Ceremony on March 22 via Ticketmaster! You are also welcome to purchase the tickets directly at the Missouri Theatre, now on sale at the box office.

Plowman Chamber Music Competition is a national event that takes place first, ahead of other established competitions such as Coleman and Fischoff. Held in Columbia, Missouri. Plowman and its audiences have the privilege of being the first to listen and to discover the next great chamber ensemble.

We are 10 days away from the final deadline! So here are 10 reasons why you should consider submitting your DVD application today.

1. Three GREAT internationally esteemed judges.
   
2. Meet other ensembles of the same high level, with whom you will likely build invaluable working relationships in the near future.
3. A chance to perform a 45-min program in our community, Friday afternoon - pending your availability, Semi-Finalists.
4. Columbia Regional Airport has MUCH improved, both in price and in schedule. No more 2 hr-drive to/from St. Louis or Kansas City - unless that's your choice.
5. You will meet some of the nicest people working as volunteers, who will support you all the way to the Vianello Audience Prize.
6. You will visit one of the best collegiate towns in the U.S. *Disclaimer* We will also be on spring break = more parking for us!
   
7. Enjoy some of the best restaurants - and we have MANY.
8. Columbia is generally cost effective.
9. A rare chance to perform formally at the historic Missouri Theatre.
   
10. ...Of course, there is that "Over $10,000+ in Cash Awards."
11. This is necessary: Did we mention we provide water AND bananas??

Will we hear YOUR ensemble this year? We hope so!