Peak Performances streams the February 2020 performance of Grand Band performing Mazzoli’s Three Fragile Systems at The Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair, New Jersey.

Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased sisters. A meditation on the precarious uncertainty of the American Dream and the role that uncontrollable forces play in our lives, The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings is inspired by a harrowing scene from the opera Proving Up, by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek. 

Available January 15-29.

Pianist Jeremy Denk performs Missy Mazzoli’s Bolts of Loving Thunder as part of a streaming recital presented by Friends of Chamber Music. Available January 20-27.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra performs  Mazzoli’s Set That On Fire for chamber ensemble, which takes its title from a phrase used by the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, on their newly recorded New Beginnings video series. The performance will stream from January 28 through February 27.

Ensemble for These Times performs Mazzoli’s Heartbreaker for solo piano on their concert Rhapsody: Music by Women Composers at the San Francisco Center for New Music.

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SF Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen curates and conducts a SoundBox program, featuring Polina Sedukh performing Mazzoli’s Vespers for Violin.

Maya Miro Johnson performs Mazzoli’s Vespers for Violin for her online performance “Nouveau: New Music for Violin.”

The fourth episode of Gagosian Premieres celebrates Ed Ruscha’s exhibition at Gagosian New York with musicians Flea, Missy Mazzoli, Vernon Reid, and Eddie Ruscha and new music created in response to the work. Composer and pianist Missy Mazzoli plays “The Night Ahead and No Real Fate”—a composition she wrote for piano four hands and, poignantly, adapted here for a solo performer in light of current social distancing.

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LACO has teamed up with New York City’s Kaufman Music Center (KMC) to present a special digital performance featuring eight world premieres by the 2019/20 Fellows in the KMC’s Luna Composition Lab program, including three works from the Luna Lab Meets LACO participants. The program features compositions by Olivia Bennett, KiMani Bridges, Madeline Clara Cheng, Ebunoluwa Oguntola, Anya Lagman, Sage Shurman, Chloe Villamayor and Emily Webster-Zuber.

Thanks to the generosity of Santa Monica/Westside Legacy Fund for Women and Girls, the program was recorded in Fall 2020 and will be available to the public at no cost.

Join Melbourne’s premier vocal ensemble the Consort of Melbourne for Elysium, a concert of a cappella music that opens a window on worlds beyond our own. Featuring Vesper Sparrow by Missy Mazzoli.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us, exploring the themes of grief and joy. Mazzoli says, “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.”

Trouble is a lush and gritty program inspired by a palette of shifting drones, acid house, electronics, Dada and silk scarves. Featuring the music of New York-based composers at the boundaries of contemporary classical, jazz and electronic music, the program includes works by Caroline Shaw, Florent Ghys, Missy Mazzoli, Pascal LeBoeuf and Nico Muhly.

Livestream and in-person tickets available.

From FEDORA:”The Listeners is an opera about our desperate desire to belong, our search for community and meaning, and the power of charismatic leaders who exploit these desires.

“A middle-class mother living in a southwestern US suburb notices a ‘hum,’ a high-frequency environmental noise that only a select few people, ‘the Listeners,’ can hear. A community organization quickly forms to solve the mystery of the hum, but when a de facto leader suggests a spiritual significance the meetings become increasingly cult-like, ritualized experiences. It becomes clear that this community of ‘Listeners’ is on a collision course of destruction.

“This opera examines the lengths to which we are willing to go in order to find a sense of place and purpose, and the way in which charismatic leaders can exploit these needs to their own ends. An enduring part of our American identity is a sense of deserved and inevitable success and happiness. When this imagined future collides with the realities and struggles of everyday life, dazzling and predatory leaders offering a ‘quick fix’ can easily prey on the vulnerabilities of the lonely and lost.”

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performs These Worlds in Us, with performances by Vera Blue, and additional works by Anna Clyne, Ella Macens, Holly Harrison, and Deborah Cheetham.

Presented digitally through the LA Opera On Now initiative, this compelling adaptation of Lars Von Trierʼs 1996 cinematic masterpiece reaches audiences through an incredibly emotional filmed performance After a near-fatal accident leaves Bessʼs new husband, Jan, paralyzed, he implores her to take lovers (quite the ask). Torn between her husbandʼs wishes and the traditional values of her small community and her church, she determinedly follows her faith to a tragic end.

Winner of the 2017 award for “Best New Opera” by the Music Critics Association of North America, groundbreaking composer Missy Mazzoli’s first large-scale opera is already recognized as one of the most powerful music-theater pieces of our time.

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performs These Worlds in Us, with performances by Vera Blue, and additional works by Anna Clyne, Ella Macens, Holly Harrison, and Deborah Cheetham.

Missy Mazzoli talks with Meredith Monk about her work WEAVE, from 2010, of which Monk writes, “I conceived of WEAVE for Two Voices, Chamber Orchestra and Chorus as a continuous, seamless form in which layers that are at first part of a texture are gradually revealed, take on their own life and then are modified by the next layer that appears. Each passage evolves from the preceding one . . . There is an organic build of momentum in each passage of WEAVE leading naturally to the next, as indicated by the marked tempi. The ebb and flow of the piece depend on the relationship of tempi from one passage to another and the balance between the solo voices, instruments and chorus.”

The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Enrique Mazzola, streams their performance of Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us on Marquee TV for their series “In the Stream of Life.” The stream will be accessible for free for seven days and then will stay on the platform with exclusive access for their subscribers.

BSO musicians feature as soloists in works from Mazzoli to Vivaldi in this special free–to-watch showcase of the incredible skill and talent within the orchestra.

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Members of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago present a program of contemporary works that invite reflection on emotions and experiences of the global pandemic, including Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche.

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Missy Mazzoli discusses the future of opera as a guest lecturer at Cal State Fullerton’s Re-imagining Opera in the 21st Century Festival.

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The CBSO performs Mazzoli’s Violent, Violent Sea at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall.

The CBSO performs Mazzoli’s Violent, Violent Sea at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall.

Join us for an intimate conversation with CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli and Jessie Montgomery as they discuss what it means to be a composer working with symphony orchestras in 2021.

The second episode of New Century Chamber Orchestra’s Resonance Series will be released on Thursday, June 3 at 12:00 p.m., featuring award-winning choreographer and Deaf advocate Antoine Hunter, also known as Purple Fire Crow, and his own Urban Jazz Dance Company, who will create a work of choreography inspired by Missy Mazzoli’s Death Valley Junction for string quartet.

Long-time NOI+F collaborator and Albany Symphony Music Director David Alan Miller leads the NOI Philharmonic in their first performance since 2019. Featuring Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us, the program brings together works that create a cycle of drama, separation, sorrow, healing and victory–perfectly encapsulating life during the twin pandemics facing our country.

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Join Festival Curator Steven Schick and Music Director Rafael Payare in a program that explores birds and light in music and written poetry by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and John Haines. The San Diego Symphony performs Mazzoli’s The Sound of Light at their To The Earth Virtual Festival.

Omega Ensemble performs Mazzoli’s Harp and Altar on this program of complex and driving 20th- and 21st-century music from important American voices.

Omega Ensemble performs Mazzoli’s Harp and Altar on this program of complex and driving 20th- and 21st-century music from important American voices.

Omega Ensemble performs Mazzoli’s Harp and Altar on this program of complex and driving 20th- and 21st-century music from important American voices.

Omega Ensemble performs Mazzoli’s Harp and Altar on this program of complex and driving 20th- and 21st-century music from important American voices.

THE DUISBURG PHILHARMONIC performs music by Missy Mazzoli at their Festival Eigenzeit.

Missy Mazzoli performs live at Standard Space as part of the opening night event for a gallery show by artist Joshua Frankel.

Led by Principal Conductor Ken-David Masur, 44 musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago come together to bring their virtual season to a lively conclusion. CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) is a bright and energetic piece, evoking the image of a solar system being flung recklessly into space. Schumann’s Fourth Symphony, recognized as a landmark for its thematic transformation, weaves drama and character into the traditional symphonic format until reaching its exuberant finale.This free episode is available to watch beginning on Thursday, July 8, 2021.

American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter is pleased to present an online artist talk between Missy Mazzoli and Shelley Washington, two versatile artists who are active as composers, performers, and educators. During this free event, Missy and Shelley will discuss their creative process, reflect on their artistic influences, and share recent work.

The event is co-presented with the Young Women Composers Camp and will be hosted by Erin Busch.

FREE, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE RESERVE ONE SPOT PER HOUSEHOLD. A Zoom link will be sent to you the day of the event.

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the Tanglewood festival in Massachusetts.

Fragments of Mazzoli’s new operatic work Orpheus Alive are performed at Symphoniskfest at the Tradgarden in Stockholm, Sweden.

The St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra performs Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves, a multi-faceted portrait of a naive antihero who, out of selflessness, becomes the victim of an isolated, dysfunctional society.

Online at https://www.guggenheim.org/event/event_series/works-process
World Premiere of Let Me Freeze Again to Death
For electronics
With a video by Adam Larsen
Commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum Works and Process Virtual Commissions Series
Join Missy for a zoom discussion of the work at 7:00, see website for details

Sun Valley Music Festival gives an online broadcast of a concert featuring Vespers for Violin.

Join us from home for the Houston Symphony’s Live from Jones Hall livestream concert series! Mazzoli’s soaring concerto for bass (Dark with Excessive Bright) spins Baroque idioms into a hypnotic fusion of styles and sounds as Robin Kesselman, principal bass, takes center stage.

Hailed by The New York Times for her “rich tone” and “virtuosic panache,” violinist Francesca Anderegg delivers insightful accounts of contemporary and classical music. She performs Mazzoli’s “Dissolve, O My Heart” for her solo recital Invisible Threads.

Daníel Bjarnason and Missy Mazzoli are among the most interesting performing artists of our time. This concert includes Bjarnason conducting his own piano work ‘Processions’, with Juho Pohjonen as soloist. Mazzoli’s music explores the vast orbits of the solar system.

Harpsichordist and #bebeethoven Fellow Elina Albach and her ensemble CONTINUUM confront the work with the contemporary cycle Vespers for a New Dark Age, a piece by Missy Mazzoli revolving around rituals from today’s time. Intense and beguiling.

Society for Chamber Music Rochester’s 44th season opens with Mazzoli’s Dissolve, O My Heart at a virtual concert recorded at the George Eastman Museum.

Katie Mitchell and The Royal Opera present a new, all-female-produced work – A New Dark Age – showcasing works by three composers: Missy Mazzoli, Anna Meredith and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Society for Chamber Music Rochester’s 44th season opens with Mazzoli’s Dissolve, O My Heart at a virtual concert recorded at the George Eastman Museum.

Eastman Opera Theatre will open its 2020-21 season with a “Our Voices: Immersive Composer Collaborations” in late November or early December. The fall production will feature one-on-one musical collaborations with Missy Mazzoli.

Radius Ensemble’s Gabriela Diaz performs Dissolve, O My Heart for their RADIUS@HOME series.

Embracing the challenge that the current crisis presents for the music industry, the Marsyas Trio is delighted to announce an upcoming digital season supported by Arts Council England. In their sixth episode they perform Mazzoli’s Magic with Everyday Objects.

Rhapsodic Musings: Body and Sky is a unique concert presentation of works for violin solo by UCCS Faculty Violinist Martha Muehleisen. Sourcing the imagery of Danielle Rae Miller’s SACRUM, at the UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art Downtown, Muehleisen performs a diversity of solo compositions by Jessie Montgomery, Missy Mazzoli, Cecilia Damström, with a world premiere by UCCS Composition faculty Jon Forshee. This concert is also inspired by the Female Emerging Artists Residency Series (F.E.A.R.S.), conceived by and hosted at UCCS GOCA Downtown.

CSO sessions features a program bursting with exuberance and optimism. Death Valley Junction by CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli is a sonic depiction of a town on the border of California and Nevada with a population of three. Her music captures the unstoppable energy of the woman who rehabilitated the town’s opera house during the 1960s.

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Mazzoli’s Ecstatic Science online at philorch.org (available for 72 hours after performance.)

World-renowned pianist Jeremy Denk performs Mazzoli’s Bolts of Loving Thunder for Wisconsin Union Theater’s virtual concert series.

The National Orchestra of Spain performs Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres).

The National Orchestra of Spain performs Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres).

The National Orchestra of Spain performs Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres).

The Eastman Opera Theatre presents selections from Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar during their unique collaborative Our Voices series.