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Opera Australia performs Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Hamer Hall in Melbourne, Australia.

Assistant Conductor for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, guest conductor Maurice Cohn will lead our Festival Orchestra for a fantastic evening of world-class classical music.

Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look as the conductor and orchestra rehearse for the weekend Festival Orchestra concerts.

Meaghan on Deck
During the break at Open Rehearsals, join Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich and special guests on the Pavilion for a casual opportunity for attendees to ask questions about what they just heard or what they’re about to hear.

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village, Wyoming, as part of Grand Teton Music Festival.

Popular Finnish Conductor Dalia Stasevska returns to Walk Festival Hall to lead a performance of her country’s most beloved and evocative symphony. Her program also includes the rousing conclusion to Ginastera’s Ballet Estancia and an appearance by violinist Jennifer Koh with a concerto written for her by composer Missy Mazzoli.

Hear teenage musicians from The National Youth Orchestra performing As One, absolutely united in their love of music to explore daring human stories and powerful emotions on a dramatic scale.

Hear teenage musicians from The National Youth Orchestra performing As One, absolutely united in their love of music to explore daring human stories and powerful emotions on a dramatic scale.

Hear teenage musicians from The National Youth Orchestra performing As One, absolutely united in their love of music to explore daring human stories and powerful emotions on a dramatic scale.

Vijay Iyer’s new piano concerto, “Handmade Universe,” incorporates elements of jazz in a work written for Shai Wosner and the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, presented here in a special partnership with Portland Chamber Music Festival. Violinist Jennifer Koh joins festival directors Wilhelmina Smith (SBC) and Melissa Reardon (PCMS) in Missy Mazzoli’s folk-inspired string trio and Mozart’s dark and brooding G minor Piano Quartet to bring the festival’s 30th year to a rousing conclusion.

Ammolite Opera is thrilled to bring you the Canadian premiere of Proving Up by the phenomenal American composer Missy Mazzoli and the brilliant Albertan librettist Royce Vavrek. Set in 1876 Nebraska, this dramatic and intimate chamber opera offers a riveting counterpoint to the often overly glamorized ideal of the American Dream.

Mental health is not just a buzzword in the music scene achieved, but is a real topic for the future: In a society that always has to cope with change processes, psychological well-being for the individual and society is of enormous importance.

The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc of the Afro-American Composer Julius Eastman and These Worlds In Us by Missy Mazzoli both revolve around the theme of isolation.

He performed in the circus, was celebrated as a pianist, was made to do forced labour under Stalin – György Cziffra’s life was full of successes and tragedies. These are portrayed in a radical and touching way in Cziffra Psodia, a piano concerto composed by fellow Hungarian Peter Eötvös. The soloist for this performance is Pierre-Laurent Aimard; Jonathan Nott conducts. In the same programme, Charles Ives’ Fourth Symphony takes us into early American modernism: a visionary collage of hymns, marches and fugues that explores fundamental questions of existence, performed by a powerful orchestra with piano and choir.

The American pianist Jonathan Biss is regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of Ludwig van Beethoven’s music. In this concert the youthful second piano concerto is combined with composer Timo Andres’ The Blind Banister, written for Biss to be performed alongside a piece by Beethoven. Conductor and violinist Pekka Kuusisto also leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres).

Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek follow up on their acclaimed 2016 world premiere Breaking the Waves with a thriller about the seductive power of cults and charismatic leaders in a divided nation.

The Listeners examines the lengths to which we, as Americans, are willing to go to find a sense of place and purpose, and the way in which confident, charming leaders can exploit these needs to their own ends.

Nashville Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Orpheus Undone at Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Reflecting her passion and advocacy for Slavic masterpieces, operatic gems, and contemporary music, Lidiya Yankovskaya’s Nashville debut covers all the bases and then some. “I love the incredible palate of orchestral colors in Missy Mazzoli’s music,” she says, complementing the opening work with jewels from the classic repertoire: Prokofiev’s provocative violin concerto with the incomparable Simone Porter, Wagner’s reverent “Liebestod,” and Dvořák’s rousing Seventh symphony.

This is Beethoven at peace, amid his cherished nature. Every measure of the poetic “Pastoral” symphony animates his impressions of country life. Also, Natasha Paremski performs Shostakovich’s tender Second Piano Concerto. “She came, played and conquered,” declared Chicago Classical Review, “Paremski attacked the fusillade of octaves with virtuosic élan.” The concert fittingly begins with a sunrise—Missy Mazzoli’s widely acclaimed Sinfonia.

Explore the sun, the moon, the stars, and beyond through music that has us looking skyward! In this program, we will travel from our home on Earth to outer space as we delve into how we see the galaxy around us from Earth and the vast expanse of outer space.

This program will also serve as an introduction to the instrument families.

DALIA STASEVSKA, conductor
MARI SAMUELSEN, violin

Missy Mazzoli: Orpheus Undone
Philip Glass: Violin Concerto No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Duration 2h, inc. 20 min intermission

Beethoven’s indomitable symphony alongside the works of Fanny Mendelssohn, Missy Mazzoli and Bryce Dessner

San Francisco Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California.

San Francisco Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California.

San Francisco Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California.

AALTO MUSIC THEATRE

The Listeners

Opera in two acts by Missy Mazzoli (German premiere)

Libretto by Royce Vavrek based on the story by Jordan Tannahill

Music Director Chad Goodman has assembled an exciting series of concerts that will truly commemorate a special anniversary season for the Elgin Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to the outstanding repertoire that was announced earlier this spring and that includes Holst’s The Planets, along with works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Ravel, and Vaughan Williams, audiences will enjoy:

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR | Overture to The Song of Hiawatha

MISSY MAZZOLI | These Worlds in Us

JIMMY LÓPEZ BELLIDO | Fiesta!

LIGETI | Lontano

MOZART | Symphony No. 31, “Paris”

LA Phil New Music Group performs Missy Mazzoli’s double bass concerto Dark with Excessive Bright at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California.

When East meets West, anything becomes possible. For Russian-American conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya, it can mean Missy Mazzoli seeing heaven in a Detroit steelworks, or Brahms embracing his inner Hungarian in one of the sweetest and sunniest of great violin concertos. And above all, it can mean Dmitri Shostakovich combining tragedy, irony and pure knockabout farce in his extraordinary Sixth Symphony. A fitting tribute in his anniversary year.

The composer phenomenon Missy Mazzoli has made a sensational entry on the global classical music scene, among others. with an operatic version of Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves . The American composer’s effective tonal language finds an original culmination in the work Dark with excessive bright from 2018, where she transforms the deep-sounding double bass into a lyrical and virtuosic solo instrument. This evening with the orchestra’s solo bassist Olle Davidsson at the instrument, who is allowed to unfold the most endearing and good-sounding sides of the deepest string.

Rococo musical loops sling us around the solar system, a precious Italian violin takes us on a journey through the centuries and under Mount Etna.

Albany Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Orpheus Undone at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, New York.

Chopin’s mellifluous Piano Concerto No. 2 returns to the Classic series stage in the hands of Venezuelan superstar Gabriela Martinez, who made her orchestral debut at the age of 6! The concert also explores imagined worlds, and deeply buried worlds. Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet ballet music brings to life Shakespeare’s beloved play of star-crossed lovers, and Missy Mazzoli’s poignant These Worlds In Us delves into the worlds of intense memory that each person holds in themselves.

Program

Mazzoli Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1

Dvořák Symphony No. 6

Performance Details

Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor
Edgar Moreau Cello

Mazzoli Orpheus Undone
Schumann Cello Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

The Lyric Opera of Chicago performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera The Listeners at the Lyric Opera House in Chicago, Illinois.

MISSY MAZZOLI

These Worlds in Us (2006)

ALEX PAXTON

Od Ody Pink’d (2019)

JULIUS EASTMAN

Stay on It (1973)

MISSY MAZZOLI

Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) (2013)

JESSIE COX

Schattenspiel (Shadow Play) (2023)

DERRICK SKYE

Prisms, Cycles, Leaps (2015)

ALEX PAXTON, TROMBONIST

KEVIN JOHN EDUSEI, CONDUCTOR

BASEL SINFONIETTA

The Lyric Opera of Chicago performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera The Listeners at the Lyric Opera House in Chicago, Illinois.

Roderick Cox conducts the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the RIAS Kammerchor in works by Missy Mazzoli, Luciano Berio, and Igor Stravinsky.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera The Listeners at the Lyric Opera House in Chicago, Illinois.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera The Listeners at the Lyric Opera House in Chicago, Illinois.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera The Listeners at the Lyric Opera House in Chicago, Illinois.

Houston Grand Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves with libretto by Royce Vavrek at Brown Theater in Houston, Texas.

Houston Grand Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves with libretto by Royce Vavrek at Brown Theater in Houston, Texas.

Houston Grand Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves with libretto by Royce Vavrek at Brown Theater in Houston, Texas.

Houston Grand Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves with libretto by Royce Vavrek at Brown Theater in Houston, Texas.

Houston Grand Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves with libretto by Royce Vavrek at Brown Theater in Houston, Texas.

Chautauqua has long offered a cross-fertilization of art forms, bringing together art makers and art lovers in community — and increasingly it serves as an incubator for new, exciting work, providing a window into the process of creative experimentation and excellence. What are the dual roles and responsibilities of the artist and the audience, and what do works of art tell us about cultural, political, and social ideas and/or ideals? This week aims to connect impactful artistic experiences with a deeper understanding of artistic meaning and process from the makers themselves.