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.

Liturgical Shades stages Bach, Zbinden, and Mazzoli with reactive lighting software, a programmatic voyage abetting the twisted invocations present through Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age.

About the Students Create Festival

This year’s incredible line up of student-led projects includes Jazz-Baroque fusion, a fully staged new opera, Beckett with Berio, and a Techno night. Thirteen events include world premieres of new music by students drawn from multiple departments and produced in a matter of days.

High energy, explosive dynamism, raw beauty. Omega Ensemble presents a program based around two contemporary masterworks – new but already audience favourites.

The title of Missy Mazzoli’s Grammy-nominated concerto comes from Milton’s Paradise Lost – an ‘impossible’ phrase, she says, that evokes the ‘dark but heartrending sound’ of the solo double bass. Drawing easily on influences from the Baroque to indie rock, this music slips from beautiful simplicity to pandemonium beyond recognition.

Samuel Adams (son of post-minimalist composer John Adams) represents a new generation in American music. His Lighthouse was commissioned by Omega Ensemble and received its world premiere in July 2024. It’s a striking work of light, shade and ever-increasing intensity – groundbreaking and mesmerising.

An Omega Ensemble concert embraces the unexpected and celebrates the extraordinary, and this Sydney Festival event will be no exception.

PROGRAM TO INCLUDE

Missy Mazzoli Dark with Excessive Bright – Concerto for double bass and string quintet
Samuel Adams Lighthouse for clarinet, piano and string quintet

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.

Opera Kansas celebrates Kansas Day with the opera Proving Up, Composed by Missy Mazzoli, Libretto by Royce Vavrek. Proving Up is a supernatural opera about the American dream and the hardships of settling the West in the 1870s. The opera follows the Zegner family, who are trying to “prove up” their land by meeting the requirements of the Homestead Act of 1862. The opera is based on a short story by Karen Russell.

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.

Journey of Faith: A Musical Tribute to Mother Teresa

The repertoire for this concert is selected to prompt reflection on Mother Teresa’s life of service and to provide inspiration for our individual journeys. Mother Teresa offers an example of selfless charity, with meaning for our own times. Featured are four US premieres by Thoma Gaqi, Genc Tukiçi, Holst, and Maestro Dante Anzolini, as well as pieces by three living US composers with ties to New York City: Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, and Missy Mazzoli.

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

Young Japanese pianist Mao Fujita is taking the classical music world by storm with his technical mastery and ‘tremendous versatility’ (The Times). Celebrated for his interpretation of Mozart, tonight he performs his Piano Concerto No. 25. A jewel of the Classical period, it is widely considered one of Mozart’s greatest concertos.

After the interval comes Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony. Never published during the composer’s lifetime, the Symphony showcases Mendelssohn’s unmistakable genius. In this celebration of the Protestant Reformation, he gives us music full of religious allusions, rich in colour and packed with warming melodies.

Osmo Vänskä has chosen Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us to open the programme. Dedicated to the composer’s father who was a soldier during the Vietnam War, it’s a moving reflection on memory, grief and love.

In the second of a pair of concerts with the Philharmonia, Mao Fujita plays one of Mozart’s greatest concertos.

The young Japanese pianist is taking the classical music world by storm with his technical mastery and ‘tremendous versatility’ (The Times). Celebrated for his interpretation of Mozart, he makes a second stop in London as part of a UK tour with the Philharmonia.

Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony, written when he was just 21, showcases his unmistakable genius for melody and orchestral colour. Mendelssohn wove Martin Luther’s hymn tune ‘Ein Feste Burg’ through the symphony’s final movement. Introduced by a gentle choir of woodwind, it builds to a powerful statement by the full orchestra.

Osmo Vänskä has chosen Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us to open the programme. Dedicated to the composer’s father, who was a soldier during the Vietnam War, it’s a moving reflection on memory, grief and love.

Young Japanese pianist Mao Fujita is taking the classical music world by storm with his technical mastery and ‘tremendous versatility’ (The Times). Celebrated for his interpretations of Mozart, tonight he performs his Piano Concerto No. 25. A jewel of the Classical period, it is widely considered one of Mozart’s greatest concertos.

After the interval comes Mendelssohn’s rarely performed ‘Reformation’ Symphony. Never published during the composer’s lifetime, the Symphony is a lesser-known masterpiece showcasing the unmistakable genius of Mendelssohn. Written as a celebration of the Protestant Reformation, he gives us music full of religious allusions, rich in colour and packed with warming melodies.

Osmo Vänskä has chosen Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us to open the programme. Dedicated to her father who was a soldier during the Vietnam War, it’s a moving reflection on memory, grief, and love.

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.

Sergei Prokofiev, Lieutenant Kijé

Missy Mazzoli, Orpheus Undone

Zdenêk Fibich, Symphony No. 2

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