The 2008 Sinquefield Family Foundation’s Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) has received 52 student entries from around the State of Missouri.

Now in its third year, C.O.M.P. is a joint project of the University of Missouri – School of Music and the Sinquefield Family Foundation. Its purpose is to provide K-12 students in Missouri schools the opportunity to write original works in diverse musical styles. Winning composition will be performed at the C.O.M.P. music festival at the University of Missouri-Columbia on March 15, 2008.

This is the only young composers’ competition that offers a cash prize to winners and the winner’s school. Each year, K-12 students at every Missouri school are asked to submit an original piece of music to C.O.M.P. Each student who applies must have the signature and sponsorship of their school’s music teacher. Community agencies, churches, after-school programs, private teachers and other musical mentors may sponsor their young musicians in partnership with the student’s school music teacher.

Levels of competition and accepted categories of music (i.e. fine art, popular, jazz, folk, sacred and other compositions) are based on the student’s grade level. The results of the competition will be announced on March 3, 2008.
The Creating Original Music Project is sponsored by an annual gift of $50,000 from the Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield and the Sinquefield Family Foundation. More information is available online at http://web.missouri.edu/~umcasmusicwww/COMP/k-12.html.

Dr. Sinquefield and the Sinquefield Family Foundation, headquartered in Osage County, Missouri have a long history of supporting organizations that enhance music, art and education. Dr. Sinquefield greatly values the life-long benefits of exposure to music. Her passion for music comes alive each season as a bassist in the Columbia Civic Symphony Orchestra, the 9th Street Symphony in Columbia, and the Jefferson City Symphony.

Dr. Sinquefield received her MBA in Business and PhD in Demography from The University of Chicago. In addition to her involvement with C.O.M.P., Dr. Sinquefield serves on the Steering Committee for the University of Missouri-Columbia and has been recognized by President of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Gordon Lamb, as one of the “Missouri 100″ for her service to and work with the University.

Dr. Sinquefield holds the following board positions:

Chairman, Parents to Support Student Activities, U. of Missouri, Columbia
Director, P-20 Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia
President, Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience Foundation
Board Member, Five Rivers, Mid-Missouri, Boy Scouts on America
Board Member, Western Los Angeles Area Council, Boy Scouts of America
Board Member, Visiting Committee, Division of Social Sciences, U. of Chicago

Dr. Sinquefield and her husband Rex have three children, all of whom attended the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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