The MOCM Festival and ACMI was incorporated by Scott Andrews and Nina Ferrigno in 2010 and presented its inaugural season in June 2011.
MOCM Advisors include Gil Rose, music director, Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera; David Robertson, Music Director Emeritus, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Jennifer Lucht, Calyx Piano Trio; Marc Thayer, executive director of Symphony New Hampshire; and Christopher Stark, Assistant Professor of Composition at Washington University Scott Andrews has been the Principal Clarinet of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra since 2005 and is a sought-after collaborative musician and concert soloist.
Scott is the former Woodwind Department Chair at Boston Conservatory and a faculty member of the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.
He collaborates regularly with Seiji Ozawa in Japan at the Saito Kinen Festival as Solo Clarinet of the Mito Chamber Orchestra.
Programs from the 2019 Festival concerts: June 17, 2019 June 19, 2019 June 20, 2019 June 22, 2019 MOCM's 2019 season musicians included harpist and composer Hannah Lash, flutist Jennifer Nitchman, oboist Jelena Dirks, bass clarinetist Tzuying Huang, bassoonist Andrew Cuneo, horn player Roger Kaza, percussionist Michael Compitello, pianist Mia Hynes, violinists Catherine French, Eva Kozma, and Angie Smart, violists Michael Casimir and Chris Tantillo, cellists Elizabeth Chung and Jennifer Lucht, the Calyx Piano Trio, and MOCM Festival Directors Scott Andrews, clarinet and Nina Ferrigno, piano.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 2014 Missouri Chamber Music Festival presents grand finale at the Sheldon.
St. Louis Public Radio, June 2014 Missouri Chamber Music Festival returns for a fourth season.