“As a youngster in rural Pennsylvania, Missy Mazzoli knew she didn’t want to become an astronaut or a nurse. Instead, she announced at age 10 that she was a composer — even though she hadn’t yet written a note. The…
An album featuring the world premiere of four orchestral works by Missy Mazzoli With performances by violinist Peter Herresthal, the Bergen Philharmonic and the Arctic Philharmonic, conducted by Tim Weiss and James GaffiganFeaturing world premiere recordings of Dark with Excessive…
“Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek will each receive a Marc Blitzstein Memorial Award of $10,000, which are given in the memory of Marc Blitzstein to composers, lyricists, or librettists to encourage the creation of works of merit for…
Acclaimed music critic and author Alex Ross calls Missy Mazzoli’s latest opera The Listeners “a potent, chilling and excruciatingly relevant work” (The Rest is Noise). In The New Yorker, Ross labels Missy among “a growing cohort of American women taking possession of…
Alex Ross calls Missy Mazzoli’s latest opera The Listeners a “potent, chilling and excruciatingly relevant work.” (November 17, 2022)
Stream Missy Mazzoli’s latest opera The Listeners for free on Opera Vision until May 12, 2023. View the trailer for The Listeners here.
George Saunders cites Missy Mazzoli in new Lit Hub article titled “George Saunders on Reading Chaotically and the Power of Generous Teachers.” A quote from the article reads… “I’d love to be a lead guitar player or maybe, if I…
WATCH Missy Mazzoli discuss her new violin concerto “Procession” written for Jennifer Koh with un/HEARD (Youtube)
Missy Mazzoli’s new Violin Concerto receives its dazzling Nordic premiere by Jennifer Koh, the Lahti Sympony and Dalia Stasevska. (Article by Jari Kallio)
Missy Mazzoli featured in Opus Magazine (Sweden), with photos by Mats Bäcker.
Mazzoli says “With each work, I endeavor to provide a new language for thoughts and feelings…I want to provide space in which we can process the overwhelming nature of the world…In this sense, a velvet-lined theatre can become arenas for…
WATCH mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo and pianist Sophia Muñoz perform Missy Mazzoli’s song You Are the Dust, featured on the Classical Album of the Year enargeia.