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.

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

Program

Vijay Iyer ‘Dig the Say’

Missy Mazzoli ‘Quartet for Queen Mab’

Jessie Montgomery ‘Strum’

Erik Nielsen ‘Nadia’

Shelley Washington ‘Middleground’

Kyle Saulnier ‘at the edge of the world not unlike our own’

TURNmusic Quartet performs ‘Hurtling Toward Oblivion’

TurnMusic Quartet concert curated by Mary Rowell features “Dig the Say” by Vijay Iyer as the centerpiece of the show. A study exploring the intricacies of James Brown’s musical genius in 4 continuous movements whose titles refer to Brown’s 1969 song “I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I’ll get in Myself). The program will include a contemplation of fantasy and dreams with Missy Mazzoli “Quartet for Queen Mab”; the wonder of the space we exist in with Shelly Washington “Middleground”; folk idioms and the spirit of dance and movement with Jessie Montgomery “STRUM”; the fearless relevance of Kyle Saulnier “at the edge of a world not unlike our own”; the world premiere of “Nadia” (translation hope) by Erik Nielsen, a work dedicated to the people of Ukraine. Hope you can join us. Come on! It’ll be FUN!

“Celebrated Emblems” marks the first-ever commission from Musicians of Ma’alwyck of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company. This multifaceted performance explores the concept of American emblems, or the symbols of American identity. Musicians of Ma’alwyck and guest artists will present contemporary works by Missy Mazzoli, James Lee III, William Jay Sydeman and George Walker. Members of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company will add a visual element to these unique and stirring contemporary works.

“Celebrated Emblems” marks the first-ever commission from Musicians of Ma’alwyck of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company. This multifaceted performance explores the concept of American emblems, or the symbols of American identity. Musicians of Ma’alwyck and guest artists will present contemporary works by Missy Mazzoli, James Lee III, William Jay Sydeman and George Walker. Members of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company will add a visual element to these unique and stirring contemporary works.

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

The Elgin Symphony Orchestra will showcase the virtuosity of its principal cellist in its Jan. 25-26 concerts.

Matthew Agnew, who has led the ESO’s cello section since 2002, and is known for his passionate performances across the Chicago area, will perform Camille Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1.

“Matthew has such a gift when it comes to not only his music-making skills but the way he thinks and talks about music and getting to collaborate with him for the Saint-Saëns’ cello concerto is going to be special,” said ESO Music Director Chad Goodman, who will lead the ESO in the performances, which also include composer Missy Mazzoli’s “These Worlds in Us” and Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, “Pathétique.”

The concerts will be held on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday, Jan. 26, at 2:30 p.m. at the Hemmens Cultural Center, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin.

A pre-concert chat will take place one-hour prior to each performance and is free to ticket holders. Tickets start at $20, with $10 student tickets. Youth, age 17 or younger, are free with an adult ticket purchase. Tickets are available at ElginSymphony.org or by calling the ESO box office at (847) 888-4000. Box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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.

On February 2nd, renowned pianist Adam Tendler will present “Inheritances” at Constellation in Chicago, as part of Frequency Series. Inheritances was released by New Amsterdam in 2024.

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.

Lies You Can Believe In

Lies You Can Believe In – Missy Mazzoli
Prelude – Tristan and Isolde – Richard Wagner
String Sextet from Capriccio, Opus 85 – Richard Strauss
Grande Sestetto (arr. anonymous) – Wolfgang A. Mozart

Artists:

Siwoo Kim – violin
Rubén Rengel – violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt – viola
Ramón Carrero-Martínez – viola
Frankie Carr – cello
Michelle Djokic – cello

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.

Step into the extraordinary world of Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt, where Missy Mazzoli brings the contradictions of a fearless explorer’s life into vivid focus. Praised by The Guardian for its “dazzlingly original score” and hailed by I Care If You Listen as “visually and aurally ravishing,” this chamber opera captures the tension between opposing forces—man and woman, water and sand, Europe and Africa—through a mesmerizing blend of live instruments and electronics.

Isabelle Eberhardt’s journey was a life of extremes, defying boundaries of gender, culture, and geography. Song from the Uproar evokes these dichotomies, illuminating her quest for freedom in a world of constraints. Mazzoli’s innovative vision invites audiences to navigate these contrasts, creating a storytelling experience that resonates deeply with themes of transformation and self-discovery.

Proving Up

Opera Kansas invites you to an unforgettable performance of Proving Up, a contemporary opera by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek. Set in post-Civil War Nebraska, this haunting story follows a family’s struggle to secure the American Dream, facing hardship, hope, and an unexpected twist of fate. With an evocative score and gripping storytelling, Proving Up is a must-see experience.

Saturday, March 1, 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 2, 3:00pm
The Old Cowtown Museum, Wichita, KS

Program Info

• MISSY MAZZOLI: These Worlds In Us
• LOWELL LIEBERMANN: Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra
• ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD: Theme and Variations, Op. 42
• KURT WEILL: Symphony No. 2

Missy Mazzoli’s work returns to the Witherspoon with These Worlds In Us, an intense, emotional writing for chamber orchestra. Omaha Symphony Third Flute & Piccolo player, Lisa Meyerhofer, takes on Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra, highlighting the range of the orchestra’s smallest instrument. Kurt Weill’s Symphony No. 2 closes the program, a 20th century masterpiece written after his escape of Nazi Germany in 1933.

Embark on a musical journey through the cosmos with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra! This year’s Young Person’s Concert, inspired by the wonders of space, features a collaboration with the Carl Sagan Institute and the world premiere of Ex Terra, Ad Astra, a thrilling new work by Cornell alumna Cheryl Engelhardt commissioned especially for this concert. The program also includes Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), selections from Holst’s The Planets, and Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy featuring Dean Zhang, this year’s concerto competition winner in the Symphony Orchestra category. Don’t miss the instrumental petting zoo before the concert at 2:30 p.m.—it’s fun for the whole family!

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.

Horsham Symphony Orchestra returns to The Capitol with an eclectic Spring concert, featuring one of Elgar’s best-known works, Enigma Variations. Each variation is a characterful musical portrait of a member of his family or an acquaintance. The theme and variations, which include the much-loved “Nimrod”, are full of beautiful melodic lines.

The concert begins with Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) by Mizzy Mazzoli, a Contemporary American composer. This atmospheric piece depicts the solar system, a collection of loops that twist around each other in a larger orbit. The orchestra will then present the world premiere of a recorder concerto “Angels on the Beach at Night” by Thomas Shorthouse. The piece was written for Horsham-based musician Luca Imperiale, who is the soloist for this performance.

A very exciting and unique concert!

Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

Thomas Shorthouse: Angels on the Beach at Night

Elgar: Variations on an original theme (Enigma)

Steve Dummer:  conductor
Rachel Ellis:  leader
Luca Imperiale:  soloist

Tickets £20 (3 for Students and under 16s)

Hirer’s Event

Musikaliska Kvarteret presents the Swedish premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age – an evocative and innovative suite in eight movements for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics. The work was premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2014 and now receives its first performance in the Nordic region.

Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age is a dark and expressive interpretation of the classic Vespers, an evening prayer of central importance in several religions. The text, written by Matthew Zapruder , explores humanity’s relationship with technology, death, and the divine.

Missy Mazzoli is one of the few female composers to have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She has also been composer in residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and her music has reached a wide audience through the acclaimed television series Mozart in the Jungle .

The concert revolves around the theme of evening music and offers a range of atmospheric works, including the Swedish premiere of Henryk Górecki’s Good Night and George Crumb’s Night Music II .

Participating

Chamber Ensemble
Christoffer Nobin, conductor

The CU Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents “Finding Light” featuring Associate Professor of Double Bass Susan Cahill, Assistant Professor of Violin Andrea Segar and composer Enrique Ponce. Cahill will perform Missy Mazzoli’s virtuosic bass concerto, “Dark with Excessive Bright;” Ponce’s moving work, “Memory of a Broken Wing”—performed by Segar— will receive its first live performance; and the program will conclude with Louise Farrenc’s passionate Symphony No. 3 in G minor.

The Chamber Orchestra, made up of members of the CU Symphony Orchestra, performs smaller-scale symphonies and chamber works by classical and modern composers.

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.

Opening Reception: March 15 at 7 PM

Borrowing its title from Arthur Russell’s 1986 album, this exhibition reconsiders the legacies of two maverick artists—Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman—focusing on their intersections, shared spaces, and continued echoes today. The show takes Seth Parker Woods’ audio installation The Holy Presence—which presents his performance of the 10 cello parts in Eastman’s 1981 masterwork The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc in an array of speakers—as a model for an immersive, focused, and somatic intersection of the artist’s work. Other contemporary artists in the exhibition who contend with the legacy of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell include: Devendra Banhart, Julia Holter, Roberto Carlos Lange, Justen Leroy, Kyle Marshall, Missy Mazzoli, Moor Mother, Dave Muller, Ethan Philbrick, Adee Roberson, Christopher Rountree, claire rousay, Kristi Sword, Adam Tendler, Davóne Tines, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & LaMont Hamilton, Saul Williams, Wild Up, Matt Wolf, richard valitutto, and Andrew Yee. Incorporating archival materials including rarely seen video and newly available audio, the exhibition draws attention to the various modes of collaboration between Eastman and Russell—as curator, conductor, performer, musician, and friend—from 1975 until their all-too-early deaths. With particular attention to the ways in which their work implicated the queer body and utilized language as modes of liberation, this exhibition seeks to reimagine their legacies as multi-hyphenate, world-straddling artists whose work together encompasses the breadth and possibility of creativity expanding from classical performance and minimalist composition to the rise of disco and dance to experimental intermedia work.

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.

Conductor – Keri-Lynn Wilson

Program:
O. Rodin. “After Reading Lovecraft” for string orchestra
V. Bibik. Concerto-Symphony for violin, viola and chamber orchestra
V. Polyov. “Turn the River” for chamber orchestra – premiere in Ukraine
M. Mazzoli Concerto “Dark with excessive bright” for double bass and string orchestra – premiere in Ukraine
I. Karabyts Concerto-Triptych for strings
B. Lyatoshynsky Melody

Soloists:
Bohdana Pivnenko – violin
Kateryna Suprun – viola
Nazariy Stets – double bass

Grammy-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein, described by The New Yorker as an artist of “lean, knowing, and unpretentious elegance,” and violinist Rebecca Fisher, described by the Boston Music Intelligencer as having “beautiful tone and nuanced phrasing,” will perform in the Myra Foundation Presents: Concerts in the Galleries series at the North Dakota Museum of Art.

Dinnerstein and Fischer will collaborate on a program of stylistically diverse and intricate works by several different composers, including Dissolve, O My Heart (2010) by Missy Mazzoli; Sonata for Violin and Keyboard No, 4 in C Minor by J.S. Bach; Encore from Tokyo (1975; transcribed by Uwe Karcher) by Keith Jarrett; and Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

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.

Celebrate BOMB’s Spring Issue with an exclusive preview from Lincoln in the Bardo, an opera featuring music by BOMB contributor Missy Mazzoli. Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo, based on the book by George Saunders, premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in October 2026.

Director Lileana Blain-Cruz joins Missy Mazzoli in conversation after the performance.

This event is a part of BOMB’s ANALOG/DIALOG series—a partnership with Ace Hotel Brooklyn through which BOMB Magazine invites artist/s for an intimate dialogue and performance to explore what inspires them, what challenges them, where they are, and where they want to go.

Details:

6:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Performance
7:25 PM Conversation & Q&A

Cash Bar

Location:
The Atrium at Ace Hotel Brooklyn
252 Schermerhorn St.
Brooklyn, NY 11217

All ticket holders will receive the spring issue of BOMB Magazine.

Excerpts of Lincoln in the Bardo, presented by the Metropolitan Opera by Missy Mazzoli, libretto by Royce Vavrek, based on the novel by George Saunders, dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz.

About Lincoln in the Bardo: Following the death of his 11-year-old son, the grief-stricken Abraham Lincoln makes nightly pilgrimages to the family crypt. Meanwhile, the spirits of the graveyard’s dead linger in a strange limbo between death and the afterlife, where ghosts complain, commiserate, and quarrel—and a struggle erupts over the boy’s soul.

In BOMB’s Spring 2025 Issue, Mazzoli interviews author Karen Russell, and the pair discuss their upcoming collaboration on a new opera, The Galloping Cure.

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

Contemporary Australian music group, Ensemble Offspring, launches Van Diemen’s Band’s returning Lunchbox Concert Series this April with performances in both Hobart and Launceston.

Opening the 2025 season in Hobart’s Town Hall on Tuesday 15 April, and continuing at Launceston’s Princess Theatre on Wednesday 16 April, Ensemble Offspring presents an exhilarating program of 21st-century music for piano and percussion.

Featuring works by Missy Mazzoli, Alice Chance, Samantha Wolf and Anna Meredith, the concert explores the wild edge of contemporary classical sound.

Internationally-acclaimed percussionist and Ensemble Offspring Artistic Director Claire Edwardes OAM joins forces with pioneering ‘cyborg pianist’ Zubin Kanga to deliver a program that organisers describe as “immersive, inventive and intensely virtuosic.”

About Van Diemen’s Band Lunchbox Series

Curated by Van Diemen’s Band Artistic Director Julia Fredersdorff, the 2025 Lunchbox Series showcases “exceptional musical talent from across lutruwita/Tasmania and interstate”. Across five concerts, audiences will experience a vibrant mix of genres, from progressive baroque and Balkan folk to virtuosic percussion and intimate baroque duets.

Described by the Sydney Morning Herald as delivering “visceral, joyous music”, Ensemble Offspring leads the national scene in new music performance. Since 1995, the group has premiered over 350 new works and built a reputation for championing underrepresented voices, including female-identifying, First Nations and emerging composers.

Through flagship initiatives such as the Hatched Academy, Noisy Women Commission and First Nations Composer in Residence, Ensemble Offspring continues to shape a diverse and dynamic future for Australian music.

Contemporary Australian music group, Ensemble Offspring, launches Van Diemen’s Band’s returning Lunchbox Concert Series this April with performances in both Hobart and Launceston.

Opening the 2025 season in Hobart’s Town Hall on Tuesday 15 April, and continuing at Launceston’s Princess Theatre on Wednesday 16 April, Ensemble Offspring presents an exhilarating program of 21st-century music for piano and percussion.

Featuring works by Missy Mazzoli, Alice Chance, Samantha Wolf and Anna Meredith, the concert explores the wild edge of contemporary classical sound.

Internationally-acclaimed percussionist and Ensemble Offspring Artistic Director Claire Edwardes OAM joins forces with pioneering ‘cyborg pianist’ Zubin Kanga to deliver a program that organisers describe as “immersive, inventive and intensely virtuosic.”

About Van Diemen’s Band Lunchbox Series

Curated by Van Diemen’s Band Artistic Director Julia Fredersdorff, the 2025 Lunchbox Series showcases “exceptional musical talent from across lutruwita/Tasmania and interstate”. Across five concerts, audiences will experience a vibrant mix of genres, from progressive baroque and Balkan folk to virtuosic percussion and intimate baroque duets.

Described by the Sydney Morning Herald as delivering “visceral, joyous music”, Ensemble Offspring leads the national scene in new music performance. Since 1995, the group has premiered over 350 new works and built a reputation for championing underrepresented voices, including female-identifying, First Nations and emerging composers.

Through flagship initiatives such as the Hatched Academy, Noisy Women Commission and First Nations Composer in Residence, Ensemble Offspring continues to shape a diverse and dynamic future for Australian music.

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

Featuring Guest Star Blakeley White-McGuire, former Principal Dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Presenting Two Original Dance works. Powered by Ethereal Rhythm, Exquisite Movement & Passionate Expression.
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Robert Cleary’s & Lisa Thurrell’s World Premiere “Renascence”. A Love Letter to Nature, set to Michael Bell’s “Regeneration: A Pentalogy”.

Inner Passages features internationally acclaimed guest star Blakeley White-McGuire, a former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, who was hailed by The New York Times dance critic Gia Kourlas for her “powerful technique, dramatic instinct and an appealing modern spunk”.

White-McGuire, who observed in The Dance Enthusiast, “the heart of all of my work is listening to the inner rhythm, inner voice that is uniquely mine” — will present two original choreographies: a world premiere solo and an ensemble dance “These Worlds In Us”, (originally created for film) that explores our inner lives and is set to and was inspired by Missy Mazzoli’s inventive and groundbreaking composition of the same title.

Inner Passages also unveils the final phase of Robert Cleary’s and Lisa Thurrell’s world premiere, “Renascence”, a rhythmic dance journey that celebrates the harmony of connecting with our natural world, inspired Michael Bell’s symphony, Regeneration: A Pentalogy.

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

Chamber music of Europe’s luscious Golden Age

Experience the dreamlike beauty of the music of La Belle Époque, with brilliant music highlighting the harp from impressionist master Claude Debussy, and lyrical romanticism of Camille Saint-Saëns.

During the peaceful decades between wars, a new-found optimism and prosperity fueled striking cultural innovation, creating a Golden Age of art and thought across Europe.

Also in this magical program are exciting new pieces from young Australian composers Andrew Ball and Tristan Coelho, exploring imaginative sounds and textures via collisions of acoustic and electronic instruments.

Presented by Hourglass Ensemble

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.

Carolyn Enger
Resonating Earth
Saturday, May 3
6:30 PM Doors Open
7:00 PM Showtime

From the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to coal burning plants in the Ruhr Valley of Germany, from the glorious heights of mountain ranges in Alaska to mountains of potassium waste in Eastern Germany, Resonating Earth was created in response to the climate crisis.

With a wide range of ambient music, including Bach, Debussy, Philip Glass, John Luther Adams, and Caroline Shaw; alongside stunning imagery of the environment by Peabody Award-winning producer Elliott Forrest (WQXR), visual artist Myles Aronowitz, and internationally-exhibited environmental activist and photographer J Henry Fair, Resonating Earth creates a soundscape focusing on the beauty of nature, and inspires environmental activism in an artistic, musically immersive way.

The program seeks to transport listeners to a still, meditative space, allowing them to decompress from their daily lives, inviting introspection about humanity’s place on the planet, and inspiring action to protect our beautiful, fragile world.

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

The Florida Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia for Orbiting Spheres at Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The Florida Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia for Orbiting Spheres at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida.

Charlotte Symphony and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at the Knight Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Missy Mazzoli speaks at Chamber Music America Conference on “Music without the Patriarchy: Exploring Strategic Organizational Approaches to Gender Justice” at Westin New York, New York.

Charlotte Symphony and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at the Knight Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Pianist Adam Tendler performs Missy Mazzoli’s Forgiveness Machine as part of “Inheritances” at Annex in Vancouver, Canada.

Cellist Mari Nagahara performs Missy Mazzoli’s Beyond the Order of Things (after Josquin) at the Konzertsaal Wuppertal in Wuppertal, Germany.

Pianist Adam Tendler performs Missy Mazzoli’s Forgiveness Machine as part of “Inheritances” at Annex in Vancouver, Canada.

Symphoria performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the Oncenter in Syracuse, New York.

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Centennial Concert Hall in  Winnipeg, Manitoba.

San Francisco Contemporary Players performs Missy Mazzoli’s Tooth and Nail at the Ann Getty Center for Education’s Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall in San Francisco, California.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players perform Missy Mazzoli’s Tooth and Nail at Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall in San Francisco, California.

With Lucilin in the City, Lucilin offers each month a program in which the curator is one of the members of the ensemble, thus highlighting the musical personalities who make up Lucilin and more generally, the extent of the possibilities of the Lucilin repertoire of contemporary music.

Polycoro Chamber Choir performs Missy Mazzoli’s Year of Our Burning at Knox United Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Orchetra della Svizzera Italiana performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us for full orchestra at LAC Sala Teatro in Lugano, Switzerland.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

Adam Tendler performs Missy Mazzoli’s Forgiveness Machine as part of “Inheritances” at the Lorraine Boccardo Theater in Ivins, Utah.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

Pittsburgh Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Bitz Opera Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Bitz Opera Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

The Royal Ballet performs choreography to Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright as part of the Festival of New Choreography at the Royal Opera House in London, England.

MSM Symphony Orchestra and MSM Opera Theatre are presenting two special performances of Opera in Concert on February 21 and 22. The concert will showcase talented instrumental musicians and vocal performers studying at MSM.

Join Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for works by 3 UK and 2 American composers.

Pittsburgh Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Bitz Opera Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Missy Mazzoli in conversation about her life and music as part of BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Missy Mazzoli at Barbican Centre’s Fountain Room in London, England.

BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), These Worlds in Us, Violin Concerto (Procession), and Orpheus Undone as part of BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Missy Mazzoli at Barbican Centre’s Hall in London, England.

Pittsburgh Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Bitz Opera Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Missy Mazzoli in conversation about her life and music as part of BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Missy Mazzoli at Barbican Centre’s Fountain Room in London, England.

Guildhall School musicians perform chamber works by Missy Mazzoli as part of BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Missy Mazzoli at Milton Court Concert Hall in London, England.

BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra members perform Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt (UK Premiere) as part of BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Missy Mazzoli at Barbican Centre Hall in London, England.

Violinist Jennifer Koh and Missy Mazzoli perform the music of Missy Mazzoli at Bourgie Hall in Montreal, Quebec.

City Opera Vancouver performs Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt at York Theatre in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Violinist Jennifer Koh and Missy Mazzoli perform the music of Missy Mazzoli at Kennedy Center’s Studio K in Washington D.C.

City Opera Vancouver performs Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt at York Theatre in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

City Opera Vancouver performs Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt at York Theatre in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

SFCM Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall in San Francisco, California.

Hard Rain Ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli’s A Thousand Tongues for violin and electronics at Queen’s University’s Sonic Lab in Belfast, Ireland.

Durham University Palatinate Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Durham Cathedral, Durham, UK

Plugged In

International Women’s Day Concert

Music: Paczkowska/ Mazzoli/ Saariaho/ Gribben/ Agnew/ Buckley/ Clyne

Fri 8th March 2024, 7.30pm

SARC, Sonic Lab, Queen’s University Belfast

SFCM Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall in San Francisco, California.

Missy Mazzoli gives a virtual lecture on her compositions, inspiration, and advocacy as a woman working in music as part of the “Humanities in Class: Webinar Series”. FREE and available to the public via registration.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Music Center at Strathmore in  North Bethesda, Maryland.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Music Center at Strathmore in  North Bethesda, Maryland.

Oregon Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton, Oregon.

The Houston Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us at Jones Hall in Houston, Texas.

Opera Australia broadcasts an excerpt of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves on ABC RN.

The Houston Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us at Jones Hall in Houston, Texas.

Mercury Chamber Orchestra and bassist Maxime Bibeau perform Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at Wortham Center in Houston, Texas.

The Houston Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us at Jones Hall in Houston, Texas.

Detroit Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Detroit Opera House in Detroit, Michigan.

Lima Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center in Lima, Ohio.

Join Great Lakes Science Center and its partners, NASA’s Glenn Research Center and The Cleveland Orchestra, from April 6–8 for the Total Eclipse Fest 2024, a three-day celestial celebration at North Coast Harbor in downtown Cleveland.

Join us for the first-ever presentation of Flashpoints~ the Mannes festival of short operas!

Detroit Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Detroit Opera House in Detroit, Michigan.

USC Opera students perform Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the University of South Carolina School of Music Recital Hall in Columbia, South Carolina.

Diablo Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California.

Detroit Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Detroit Opera House in Detroit, Michigan.

USC Opera students perform Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the University of South Carolina School of Music Recital Hall in Columbia, South Carolina.

Bard College Conservatory of Music and Music Program present Music Alive! Dynamic Women, with composers Sarah Hennies, Missy Mazzoli, Jessie Montgomery, Erica Lindsay, Angelica Sanchez, and Joan Tower

The Wind Ensemble is excited to welcome you to our first concert of the term. We will be performing a premiere transcription of Missy Mazzoli’s Vesper Sparrow, done by UO’s own Micah Laird. As well as Danzon No.2 and Joel Puckett’s flute concerto featuring Dr. Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington.

Resonating Earth seeks to transport listeners to a still, meditative space, allowing them to decompress from their daily lives, and invites introspection about humanity’s place on the planet, inspiring action to protect our beautiful, fragile world.

Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Violent, Violent Sea at Fort Washington Collegiate Church in New York, New York.

The Smith College Orchestra features concerto competition winners Lauren Kappelmeier ‘25, flute; Jessica Klurfeld ‘26, clarinet;  and Annabel Li ‘26, piano, performing works by Chaminade, Crusell, Rachmaninoff, and others.

Eklund Opera University of Colorado Boulder performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Imig Music Building’s Music Theatre in Boulder, Colorado.

Aalborg Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Musikkens Hus in Aalbord, Denmark.

Eklund Opera University of Colorado Boulder performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Imig Music Building’s Music Theatre in Boulder, Colorado.

Eklund Opera University of Colorado Boulder performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Imig Music Building’s Music Theatre in Boulder, Colorado.

Our last concert continues the conversation that began with our opening concert. Music that embodies the power of versatility to survive and the strength we must find within us to inspire others. The power of femininity is honoured in our first half and that strength and resilience is echoed in the brooding triumph of Brahms’ own final orchestral masterpiece: his 4th Symphony.

Eklund Opera University of Colorado Boulder performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Imig Music Building’s Music Theatre in Boulder, Colorado.

Experience two unique chamber operas created by powerful American female composers. Amy Beach’s “Cabildo” tells the supernatural story of notorious pirate Pierre Laffite’s escape from a New Orleans prison during the War of 1812. Missy Mazzoli’s “Proving Up,” based on a short story by Karen Russell, is a surreal and haunting commentary on the American dream as experienced by a fictional family of 1860s homesteaders.

Nicknamed “Beethoven’s Tenth”, Brahms’s monumental First Symphony is a grandiose gesture of emotion embroidered with rich woodwind harmonies, thundering timpani, and raucous brass. Spotlight Artist Emily D’Angelo sings a suite of stunning vocal works by centuries of composers, plus a new work by TSO RBC Affiliate Composer Alison Yun-Fei Jiang opens the performance.

Jody Oberfelder dance company performs And then, Now: a choreographed dance performance to the music of Missy Mazzoli at Greenwood Cemetery in New York, New York.

And Then, Now, is an immersive performative walk exploring the significance of reliance—be it on each other, the environment, or our collective humanity.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the Flynn Center in Burlington, Vermont.

Jody Oberfelder dance company performs And then, Now: a choreographed dance performance to the music of Missy Mazzoli at Greenwood Cemetery in New York, New York.

Jody Oberfelder dance company performs And then, Now: a choreographed dance performance to the music of Missy Mazzoli at Greenwood Cemetery in New York, New York.

Resonating Earth seeks to transport listeners to a still, meditative space, allowing them to decompress from their daily lives, and invites introspection about humanity’s place on the planet, inspiring action to protect our beautiful, fragile world.

Jody Oberfelder dance company performs And then, Now: a choreographed dance performance to the music of Missy Mazzoli at Greenwood Cemetery in New York, New York.

Special season closer featuring music and electronics, plus the World Premiere performance of a new work by ensemble vim Composer Fellow, Ryne Siesky.

Plus the official launch of spark!

Jody Oberfelder dance company performs And then, Now: a choreographed dance performance to the music of Missy Mazzoli at Greenwood Cemetery in New York, New York.

Adam Tendler performs Missy Mazzoli’s Forgiveness Machine as part of “Inheritances” at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas.

Essen Philharmonie presents the German premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at Alfried Krupp Hall in Essen, Germany.

This concert is a lens through centuries of musical soundscape, connecting living composers with pieces that were influenced and inspired by the established masters.

Essen Philharmonie presents the German premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at Alfried Krupp Hall in Essen, Germany.

Sarasota Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us at the Sarasota Opera House in Sarasota, Florida.

Composer Missy Mazzoli often makes multiple versions of her works. In 2018, Mazzoli wrote a piece for solo bass and string orchestra that she recently rearranged for violin and orchestra, and she says she loves how the solo violin soars over the orchestra in this newer version. Join us today to hear violinist Peter Herresthal and the Bergen Philharmonic play ‘Dark with Excessive Bright’ by Missy Mazzoli.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra performs These Worlds in Us by Missy Mazzoli and Grieg’s Piano Concerto with pianist Joyce Yang.

Ensemble in Process will make its Chicago debut on May 19, 2024, 7.30pm at the Epiphany Center for the Arts with a concert dedicated to works accompanied by visuals on screen, an homage to the art of Hollywood cinema: “Ensemble in Visual Motion” . Allyson Clare and Brian Mark debut their Midwestern collaborative tour with works by Steve Reich, Ursula Kwong-Brown, Ian Dicke, Jonathan Hannau, Missy Mazzoli, Anuj Bhutani, and Brian Mark, with collaborations of Chicago based flautist Robin Meiksins and visual artist Aespyne Alix. Also on this program is a new video installation for a previously composed piece by Jonathan Hannau.

On Tuesday, May 28 at 19:00 on the stage of the White Column Hall of Princess Shakhovskaya of the Helikon-Opera Theater the Russian premiere of the acclaimed opera “Proving Up” by the American composer Missy Mazzoli with a libretto by Royce Vavrek and the world premiere of the opera “Zhdana” by Alina Nebykova based on the story of the same name by Alexey will take place Nebykov performed by soloists of Helikon-Oepra, Carnegie Hall and the Bolshoi Theater.

Berlin Academy of American Music performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright (violin concerto) conducted by Garrett Keast, featuring violinist Charlotte Thiele at the Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal in Hamburg, Germany.

Weightless music is on the program when Berlin Academy of American Music performs at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany on June 4, 2024.

Ljubinka Kulisic, accordion
Rick Stotijn, double bass
Musicians of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

JOHN ZORN Road Runner      
MISSY MAZZOLI   Dark with Excessive Bright
JOHN ADAMS   Shaker Loops

We are thrilled to announce our annual festival, which will be held from June 17-22, 2024 in San Francisco.

The 2023–24 fellows—Maria Emiliano, Ilaria Hawley, Haeon Lee, Peyton Nelesen, Marvel Roth, and Hannah Wolkowitz—will travel to San Francisco to participate in six days of workshops, masterclasses, networking events, performances, and more. Get to know the fellows on our website.

Concert III of MOCM highlights clean lines and the power of “less is more” in the music of Beethoven and Arnold Schoenberg. This concert features soprano, Janna Baty in Stravinsky’s final original composition, The Owl and the Pussycat & the Calyx Piano Trio in A Thousand Tongues by Missy Mazzoli.

Opera Philadelphia will preview its upcoming season with a free concert on June 20 at Dilworth Park.

The showcase will feature music from “Don Giovanni,” “The Anonymous Lover,” and “Songs from the Uproar.”

Immerse yourself in a fantastical musical journey at the Boston Festival Orchestra’s first concert of the summer, “Firebird.” This imaginative program unfolds with Rossini’s humorous overture from the opera Semiramide. The orchestra then delves into the contemporary with Missy Mizzoli’s electric Orpheus Undone, a modern interpretation of the tragic tale of Orpheus and his lover Eurydice. The grand finale is Stravinsky’s beloved ballet, The Firebird, whose astonishing orchestral effects bring to life the mystical folkloric tale of Prince Ivan and the magical creature that saves him.

Instrumental Focus

• composer

Programs Taught

• Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies

In the concert “No Woman No Symphony”, the Complexity Orchestra, conducted by Elsa, is presenting two pieces by female composers: Louise Farrenc’s 3rd Symphony in G minor and Missy Mazzoli’s “You know me from here,” which will be performed for the first time in Austria.

See the conducting stars of tomorrow in these engaging concerts where student conductors rotate between conducting a movement of a work, or playing in the orchestra. Program Director and AMFS Music Director Robert Spano observes the work of his students at this weekly event.

AMFS artist-faculty, all top musicians from renowned orchestras, opera companies, and conservatories, come together to play their favorite chamber music works. Always a joyful and creative 75 minutes of music-making.

Immerse yourself in the dazzling virtuosity of Jennifer Koh, and the adventurous sound world of Missy Mazzoli, “the 21st century’s gatecrasher of new classical music.” (National Public Radio’s Turning the Tables)

PROGRAM

OUTI TARKIAINEN: The Ring of Fire and Love
MISSY MAZZOLI: Violin Concerto (Procession)
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SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 43

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

Missy Mazzoli dedicated These Worlds in Us to her father, a soldier in Vietnam. She writes, “In talking to him it occurred to me that, as we grow older, we accumulate worlds of intense memory within us, and that grief is often not far from joy. I like the idea that music can reflect painful and blissful sentiments in a single note or gesture, and sought to create a sound palette that I hope is at once completely new and strangely familiar to the listener.”

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.

From the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to coal burning plants in the Ruhr Valley of Germany, from the glorious heights of mountain ranges in Alaska to mountains of potassium waste in Eastern Germany, Resonating Earth was created in response to the climate crisis. A stylistically fluid creation with a wide range of ambient music; many of which will be making their local premiere, including J.S. Bach, Marcos Balter, John Cage, Claude Debussy, Philip Glass, Iman Habibi, Pia Møller Johansen, Lee Kesselman, Missy Mazzoli, Meredith Monk, Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, Robert Sirota and Scott Wollschleger; alongside stunning imagery of the environment by Peabody Award-winning producer Elliott Forrest (WQXR), visual artist Myles Aronowitz, and internationally-exhibited environmental activist and photographer J Henry Fair, Resonating Earth creates a soundscape focusing on the beauty in our environment and inspires environmental activism in an artistic, musically immersive way.

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.

In this typically adventurous and thought-provoking programme Jeremy Denk offers an eclectic mix of 19th century to present-day female composers, often unjustly neglected by history, showcasing a huge range of approaches to the piano. In the second half, two masterpieces by Schumann and Brahms whose lives and ideas were so often connected.

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).

Our dazzling string players perform an hour (or so) of music in Charlottesville’s newest cultural space, set in an old bank on the Pedestrian Mall in Downtown Charlottesville. Ticket includes concert and light snacks. Wine available for purchase.

Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek follow their hit opera Breaking the Waves with a thriller about the seductive power of cults and charismatic leaders in a divided nation. Co-commissioned and co-produced with Opera Philadelphia, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Norwegian National Opera, 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. Prior to the American premiere at Opera Philadelphia in September 2024 and Lyric Opera of Chicago in March 2025, members of the creative team will discuss their creative process, and excerpts will be performed.

We throw open the Symphony Hall doors to showcase all that the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops have to offer, alongside our arts and music education partners and programs from throughout Greater Boston. Join BSO and Pops musicians, Music Director Andris Nelsons, Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart, and Youth and Family Concerts Conductor Thomas Wilkins for a free and joyful afternoon of music-making and community spirit.

Concert for the City is generously supported by the Li-Qiu Family Foundation.

Sunday Platform is our most important and long-standing community event. These gatherings educate, stimulate personal growth, inspire reflection and action, and strengthen our community. Sunday meetings begin with music, followed by greetings and a talk given by a Society Leader, member, or guest.  Platforms cover a variety of topics that reflect current events, pressing social issues, and Humanist philosophy. Each Sunday meeting is followed by a luncheon and social hour.

International pianist and Steinway Artist, Carolyn Enger, presents a cinematic concert collaboration, combining beautiful music with contemplative natural imagery. This program inspires reflection on our own responsibility to the well-being of our planet. Q&A will follow.

Registration for Great Neck cardholders and residents begins August 29 at 10:00 AM, online, in-person, or via phone. Non-residents are welcome as walk-ins, as space allows.

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.

Resonating Earth Recording Release Concert

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.

Pianist Jeremy Denk opens the 2024 International Artist Series at Ordway Concert Hall in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday, performing a program of works by female composers from the 19th century to today—Clara Schumann, Tania Leon, Cecile Chaminade, Missy Mazzoli, Meredith Monk, Amy Beach, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Louise Farrence, and Phyllis Chen—as well as Robert Schumann and Brahms. Denk, whose new album, Ives Denk, is out next week, recently stopped by the Nonesuch offices to share some of his favorite Nonesuch albums for the Nonesuch Selects series; you can see his selections and what he had to say about them here.

The Penn State School of Music has announced a new recital series titled “American Mavericks, Malcontents, and Mischief-Makers.” This series celebrates the bold and rebellious spirit of music, highlighting groundbreaking composers and performers who dared to defy conventions.

Audience members will be immersed in a diverse array of innovative and provocative works, performed by the exceptional talent of the School of Music’s faculty and students. Each recital in the series will incorporate curated remarks delivered by the school’s esteemed musicology and theory faculty, providing deeper insight into the inspiring music.

Music that is born from the magical alchemy of old stories becoming new, regenerating a cycle neverending with fresh ideas drawn from ancient inspiration.

Dinuk Wijeratne – Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems
Missy Mazzoli – Quartet for Queen Mab
Marcel Tournier – Feerie Prelude
Jean Sibelius – En Saga Septet

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.

From the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to coal burning plants in the Ruhr Valley of Germany, from the glorious heights of mountain ranges in Alaska to mountains of potassium waste in Eastern Germany, Resonating Earth was created in response to the climate crisis. A stylistically fluid creation with a wide range of ambient music, including Bach, Nico Muhly, Pia Møller Johansen, Missy Mazzoli, Philip Glass, Marcos Balter, Iman Habibi and Caroline Shaw; alongside stunning imagery of the environment by Peabody Award-winning producer Elliott Forrest(WQXR), visual artist Myles Aronowitz, and internationally-exhibited environmental activist and photographer J Henry Fair, Resonating Earth creates a soundscape focusing on the beauty in our environment and inspires environmental activism in an artistic, musically immersive way.

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

Maurice Cohn, music director

LEONARD BERNSTEIN Overture to Candide

MISSY MAZZOLI These Worlds in Us

AARON COPLAND Clarinet Concerto – Robert Turizziani, clarinet

DUKE ELLINGTON Harlem

GEORGE GERSHWIN An American in Paris

Maurice Cohn, music director

LEONARD BERNSTEIN Overture to Candide

MISSY MAZZOLI These Worlds in Us

AARON COPLAND Clarinet Concerto – Robert Turizziani, clarinet

DUKE ELLINGTON Harlem

GEORGE GERSHWIN An American in Paris

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

The LA Phil’s new-music marathon includes 12 hours of live performances and art installations in every corner of Walt Disney Concert Hall. This year’s festival, curated by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Ellen Reid, explores the intersections of art, technology, and nature through the theme of field recordings, the act of capturing audio in natural or built environments outside of a studio setting. Noon to Midnight: Field Recordings is an invitation to experience how sound changes us by participating in deeper forms of listening.

From the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to coal burning plants in the Ruhr Valley of Germany, from the glorious heights of mountain ranges in Alaska to mountains of potassium waste in Eastern Germany, Resonating Earth was created in response to the climate crisis. A stylistically fluid creation with a wide range of ambient music, including Bach, Nico Muhly, Pia Møller Johansen, Missy Mazzoli, Philip Glass, Marcos Balter, Iman Habibi and Caroline Shaw; alongside stunning imagery of the environment by Peabody Award-winning producer Elliott Forrest(WQXR), visual artist Myles Aronowitz, and internationally-exhibited environmental activist and photographer J Henry Fair, Resonating Earth creates a soundscape focusing on the beauty in our environment and inspires environmental activism in an artistic, musically immersive way.

To celebrate the release of his much-anticipated album, Inheritances, pianist Adam Tendler performs works from his headline-grabbing program and offers insights into its genesis. The “relentlessly adventurous pianist” (The Washington Post) will be joined by composers and collaborators of the project—some of today’s most sought-after composers in the industry. When Adam Tendler’s father unexpectedly died, he was left with an inheritance, an envelope full of cash received in a parking lot. He used its entirety to commission a broad spectrum of composers (and friends) to devise piano works exploring the theme of “inheritance”. Woven into one gripping collection of “little masterpieces” (The New York Times), each reflecting a “melancholy beauty beyond conventions” (Pioneer Press), this “wildly unexpected” (Star Tribune) program tells a universal story of lineage, loss, and place. For countless listeners, Inheritances has become a powerful meditation on confronting our past, and a catalyst for moving forward.

Beo String Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Enthusiasm Strategies at Gualala Arts Center in Gualala, California.

Beo String Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Enthusiasm Strategies at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, California.

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at Tennessee Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Waco Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us at Waco Hall in Waco, Texas.

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at Tennessee Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Beo String Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Enthusiasm Strategies at the 222 in Healdsburg, California.

Third Coast Percussion Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles (West Coast premiere) at Bing Concert Hall in Stanford, California, as part of Standford Live.

United Instruments of Lucilin perform the Luxembourg premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s viola version of Tooth and Nail at Drescherhaus in Luxemborg City, Luxembourg, as part of Lucilin in the City.

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Centennial Concert Hall in  Winnipeg, Canada, as part of the Winnipeg New Music Festival.

Third Coast Percussion performs Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center Concert Hall in Troy, New York.

Beo String Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Enthusiasm Strategies at J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library in New York, New York.

Beo String Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Enthusiasm Strategies at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, New York.

Croatian National Theatre Ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt at the Croatian National Theatre in Varaždin, Croatia.

Croatian National Theatre Ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt at the Croatian National Theatre in Varaždin, Croatia.

Juilliard Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Julliard School in New York, New York, conducted by Steven Osgood and directed by Mary Birnbaum.

Juilliard Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Juilliard School in New York, New York, conducted by Steven Osgood and directed by Mary Birnbaum.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Royal Festival Hall in London, United Kingdom.

Juilliard Opera performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Juilliard School in New York, New York, conducted by Steven Osgood and directed by Mary Birnbaum.

Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo performs music of Missy Mazzoli at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Ontario, as part of the Power Corporation of Canada Vocal Concert series.

The Minnesota Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Minnesota Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Idaho State-Civic Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Idaho State University’s Stephens Performing Arts Center in Pocatello, Idaho.

The Minnesota Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The New York Philharmonic performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at David Geffen Hall in New York, New York.

Matt Haimovitz performs Missy Mazzoli’s Beyond the Order of Things (after Josquin) at the Israel Conservatory of Music Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Israel, as part of the Primavera Project.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra and bassist Jeffrey Beecher perform Missy Mazzoli’s double bass concerto Dark with Excessive Bright at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Ontario.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra and bassist Jeffrey Beecher perform Missy Mazzoli’s double bass concerto Dark with Excessive Bright at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Ontario.

University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at the University of Kentucky’s Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington, Kentucky.

Pianist Adam Tendler performs Forgiveness Machine for piano solo at Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York, New York, in the East Cost premiere of Inheritances. 

The La Jolla Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the University of San Diego’s Mandeville Auditorium in San Diego, California.

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Adelaide Town Hall in Adelaide, Australia.

The La Jolla Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the University of San Diego’s Mandeville Auditorium in San Diego, California.

Joensuu City Orchestra with soloist Joel Madetoja perform Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at Carelia Hall in  Joensuu, Finland.

Vancouver Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s In Spite of All This, Ecstatic Science, and Violent, Violent Sea alongside the music of Zosha Di Castri at the Annex in Vancouver, Canada.

The Kansas City Symphony and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Kauffman Performing Arts Center in New York, New York.

Neville Dance Theatre performs music by Missy Mazzoli at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center in New York, New York, as part of “Celebrating Women Composers.”

The Bozeman Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us (for full orchestra) at Wilson Auditorium in Bozeman, Montana

Neville Dance Theatre performs music by Missy Mazzoli at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center in New York, New York, as part of “Celebrating Women Composers.”

The Kansas City Symphony and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Kauffman Performing Arts Center in New York, New York.

The Kansas City Symphony and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Kauffman Performing Arts Center in New York, New York.

The Bozeman Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us (for full orchestra) at Wilson Auditorium in Bozeman, Montana

NOVUS NY performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at St. Paul’s Chapel at Trinity Wall Street Church in New York, New York.

Violinist Olivia de Prato performs Missy Mazzoli’s Tooth and Nail at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre in New York, New York.

University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at the University of Kentucky’s Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington, Kentucky.

Classical WSMR, Florida’s Classical Music Station, features Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright on Modern Notebook, hosted by the University of South Florida, Tampa Bay.

ASKO | SCHÖNBERG Ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in  Amsterdam, Netherlands, as part of the concert event “Mapping Andriessen.”

Pianist Carolyn Enger performs Missy Mazzoli’s Orizzonte at the National Museum in Oslo, Norway, as part of the concert event “Resonating Earth.”

Merit Philharmonic performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Merit School of Music’s Gottlieb Hall in  Chicago, Illinois.

The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at Anne S. Richardson Auditorium in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Matt Haimovitz performs Missy Mazzoli’s Beyond the Order of Things (after Josquin) at BargeMusic in Brooklyn, New York, as part of the Primavera Project.

World premiere collaboration between Rufus Wainwright and Missy Mazzoli at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York, New York, as part of the “Waiting for the Barbarians” event.

Idaho State Civic Orchestra performs music by Missy Mazzoli at Old Town Pocatello in Pocatello, Idaho, as part of First Friday Art Walk.

Idaho State Civic Orchestra performs music by Missy Mazzoli at Old Town Pocatello in Pocatello, Idaho, as part of First Friday Art Walk.

Stadttheater Bremerhaven presents the German premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Stadttheater Grosses Haus in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Cellist Matt Haimovitz performs Missy Mazzoli’s Beyond the Order of Things (after Josquin) from THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT at Carriage House Violins in Boston, Massachusetts.

Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek discuss their opera Breaking the Waves at the Opéra Comique in Paris, France. Event is free, with participation available online or in-person, hosted by the American Library in Paris.

Stadttheater Bremerhaven presents the German premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Stadttheater Grosses Haus in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Stadttheater Bremerhaven presents the German premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Stadttheater Grosses Haus in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Stadttheater Bremerhaven presents the German premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Stadttheater Grosses Haus in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Stadttheater Bremerhaven presents the German premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Stadttheater Grosses Haus in Bremerhaven, Germany.

The Hallé Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Stadttheater Bremerhaven presents the German premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Stadttheater Grosses Haus in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and pianist Kirill Kuzmin perform Missy Mazzoli’s Self-Portrait with Dishevelled Hair from the 2023 album how do I find you at Kaufman Center’s Merkin Hall in New York, New York.

The Hallé and conductor Kevin John Edusei perform Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at St. Andrew’s & Blackfriars’ Hall in Norwich, England, as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2023.

Opéra Comique performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at Place Boieldieu in Paris, France.

The Hallé Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Opéra Comique performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at Place Boieldieu in Paris, France.

Opéra Comique performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at Place Boieldieu in Paris, France.

Ensemble for These Times performs Missy Mazzoli’s A Map of Laughter online and in-person at Noe Valley Ministry in San Francisco, California.

Luna Composition Lab Festival, lead and founded by Missy Mazzoli, featuring 2023’s six selected composition fellows in New York, New York.

International Contemporary Ensemble premieres works by Luna Composition Lab fellows at Mannes School of Music’s Steifel Hall in New York, New York, as part of Luna Lab 2023 “New Moons” concert.

Ragazze Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Enthusiasm Strategies at Christian Fellowship Church in Cork, Ireland, as part of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

String players from the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra perform Missy Mazzoli’s Death Valley Junction at Buzzards Bay Brewing in Westport, Massachusetts.

Third Coast Percussion performs Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts, as part of the Rockport Music Festival.

Third Coast Percussion performs Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles at Artpark in Lewiston, New York.

Royal Northern Sinfonia performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Sage Gateshead in Gateshead, United Kingdom, as part of “BBC Proms at Sage Gateshead.”

Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta, pianist Hinrich Alpers, and the Ottawa Chamberfest Ensemble perform Missy Mazzoli’s Death Valley Junction and Strange Dreams at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.

Ensemble Offspring performs Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche at the Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Room in Sydney, Australia.

Third Coast Percussion performs Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles at the Between Breaths album release party, at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, Illinois.

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival and violist Eliesha Nelson perform Missy Mazzoli’s Tooth and Nail (viola version) at Symphony Space in New York, New York.

NorrlandsOperan Symphony Orchestra presents the Swedish premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Orpheus Undone at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå, Sweden.

Third Coast Percussion’s album Between Breaths featuring Missy Mazzoli’s newest percussion work Millennium Canticles is out September 8th, available to stream and purchase.

Ensemble Resonanz and DJ Celeste McMillian present the music of Missy Mazzoli at resonanzraum St. Pauli in Hamburg, Germany.

The Sustain Music Project performs Missy Mazzoli’s Ecstatic Science at Performing Arts Center Eastside (PACE) in Bellevue, Washington.

Applications for Luna Lab 2023 – 2024 are open NOW! Apply by September 15th for the Luna Composition Lab Fellowship or Adventures in Sound. More information available at lunacompositionlab.org.

Lahti Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Orpheus Undone at Sibelius Hall in Lahti, Finland.

Ball State Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Ball State University’s Sursa Concert Hall in Muncie, Indiana.

Violinist Pekka Kuusisto performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dissolve, O my Heart at the Berlin Philharmonic’s Chamber Music Hall in Berlin, Germany.

Seven Hills Chamber Music performs Missy Mazzoli’s Lies You Can Believe In at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York, New York.

Flemish Radiochoir performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age at the Jesuit Church in Lier, Belgium.

The Harlem Chamber Players perform music by Missy Mazzoli at Columbia’s The Forum in New York, New York, hosted by Composers Now.

Flemish Radiochoir performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age at Abbaye de la Cambre in Brussels, Belgium.

Flemish Radiochoir performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age at Kathedraal Sint-Quintinus in Hasselt, Belgium.

Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at the Hawaii Theatre in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Princeton Symphony Orchestra and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, New Jersey.

Princeton Symphony Orchestra and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, New Jersey.

Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Kilden in Kristiansand, Norway.

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at the Orpheum Theater in Vancouver, Canada.

Dal Niente Ensemble and BGSU students perform Missy Mazzoli’s A Flourish of Green and Orpheus Undone at Bowling Green State University’s Bryan Recital Hall in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Violinist Jennifer Koh performs Missy Mazzoli’s Hail, Horrors, Hail from the album Alone Together at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston, Illinois.

An atmospheric opener by American composer MISSY MAZZOLI creates a solar system of sound in her mystical Sinfonia of Orbiting Spheres. Recognized as one of the foremost violinists of our time, SARAH CHANG returns to the Sioux City Symphony with a dazzling performance of MAX BRUCH’s energetic Violin Concerto in G minor. Often called The Great American Symphony, AARON COPLAND’s joyous and monumental Third Symphony was composed to celebrate the end of World War II. It concludes with one of music’s most well-known and influential works—the stirring and triumphant Fanfare for the Common Man!

Dal Niente Ensemble and BGSU students perform Missy Mazzoli’s A Flourish of Green and Orpheus Undone at Bowling Green State University’s Kobacker Hall in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at the Orpheum Theater in Vancouver, Canada.

Kingston Symphony Orchestra and bassist Ian Whitman perform Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Ensemble Échappé performs opera arias by Missy Mazzoli at the Academy of Arts and Letters Library and Galleries in New York, New York.

University of Michigan’s Contemporary Directions Ensemble performs excerpts of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Walgreen Drama Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Helsingborg Concert Hall in Helsingborg, Sweden.