Missy Mazzoli curates a concert and discusses her works with members of the Oregon Symphony and Gabriel Kahane at Mississippi Studios in Portland, Oregon.

Oregon Symphony performs Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon.

Oregon Symphony performs Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon.

Blue Streak Ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli’s Lies You Can Believe In at Cleveland Institute of Music’s Mixon Hall in  Cleveland, Ohio.

Oregon Symphony performs Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon.

Duo Forzando performs Missy Mazzoli’s A Thousand Tongues at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, Illinois.

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

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

Ulster Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at The Ulster Hall in Belfast, Ireland.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up at Goodman’s Owen Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up at Goodman’s Owen Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up at Goodman’s Owen Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Pianist Cole Burger performs Missy Mazzoli’s Bolts of Loving Thunder at First United Methodist in Valparaiso, Indiana.

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright alongside Farrenc, Barbara Croall, and Beethoven. The evocative work draws inspiration from the past, bringing baroque-era techniques into the 21st century through the skillful bow of Principal Double Bass Jeffrey Beecher.

Alisa Weilerstein performs the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Fragments for Cello Solo in Toronto, Ontario (world premiere performance).

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright alongside Farrenc, Barbara Croall, and Beethoven. The evocative work draws inspiration from the past, bringing baroque-era techniques into the 21st century through the skillful bow of Principal Double Bass Jeffrey Beecher.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up at the Goodman’s Owen Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright alongside Farrenc, Barbara Croall, and Beethoven. The evocative work draws inspiration from the past, bringing baroque-era techniques into the 21st century through the skillful bow of Principal Double Bass Jeffrey Beecher.

Mezzo-Soprano Sasha Cooke premieres Missy Mazzoli’s new song Self Portrait with Disheveled Hair at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. This concert also features premieres by Caroline Shaw, Nico Muhly, Christopher Cerrone, and others.

Jennifer Koh and the National Symphony Orchestra premiere Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington D.C.

Jennifer Koh and the National Symphony Orchestra premiere Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington D.C.

Oslo Filharmonien performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the Oslo Concert Hall in Oslo, Norway.

The LA Phil New Music Group and soprano Eliza Bagg perform Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California.

Butler Opera Center performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Butler School of Music’s McCullough Theatre in Austin, Texas.

Butler Opera Center performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Butler School of Music’s McCullough Theatre in Austin, Texas.

Butler Opera Center performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Butler School of Music’s McCullough Theatre in Austin, Texas.

Arctic Philharmonic Sinfonietta and pianst/composer Missy Mazzoli perform Mazzoli’s works Dark with Excessive Bright, The Night Ahead and No Real Fate, Orizzonte, and Vesper at Longyearbyen Kulturhus in Svalbard, Norway. This performance is the opening concert of the 2022 Arctic Chamber Music Festival.

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at hr-Broadcasting Hall in Frankfurt, Germany. The performance will be virtually broadcast live.

Missy Mazzoli performs at the Arctic Chamber Music Festival in Svalbard, Norway, where Missy’s violin concerto Dark with Excessive Bright will also be performed, featuring soloist Peter Herresthal.

The Lexington Philharmonic performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at the University of Kentucky’s Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington, Kentucky.

The Ottowa Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and pianist Kirill Kuzmin perform Missy Mazzoli’s Self-Portrait with Dishevelled Hair at Shriver Hall in  Baltimore, Maryland.

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City, Iowa.

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the Oklahoma State University’s McKnight Center for the Performing Arts in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Alisa Weilerstein performs the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Fragments for Cello Solo in Santa Barbara, California (west coast premiere performance).

The Iceland Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Jennifer Koh is a prolific champion of new works and stars in the premiere of a CSO co-commission by “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart,” Missy Mazzoli.

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Youth Ambassadors perform Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Alisa Weilerstein performs the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Fragments for Cello Solo in Irvine, California.

Alisa Weilerstein performs the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Fragments for Cello Solo in La Jolla, California.

Royal Northern Sinfonia performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at Sage Gateshead in Gateshead, England, as part of the After Dark Festival.

Kronos Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Enthusiasm Strategies at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Violinist Larissa O’ Grady performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers at The Dock, Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Ireland.

To usher in the season of spring, Musica Viva NY performs Mazzoli’s Vesper Sparrow in their program exploring music for a cappella choir celebrating the natural world, and our place within it.

MoMA’s Modern Monday Series presents One Morning in 1904; a film by Jay Anania with music by Missy Mazzoli.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs the UK Premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration.

London Philharmonic Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at Royal Festival Hall in London, England.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra premieres Missy Mazzoli’s Orpheus Undone at the Symphony Center in Chicago, IL.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra premieres Missy Mazzoli’s Orpheus Undone at the Symphony Center in Chicago, IL.

Aperio, Music of the Americas performs Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche at Matchbox 4 in Houston, Texas.

Alisa Weilerstein performs the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Fragments for Cello Solo at Carnegie Hall in New York, New York (New York premiere performance).

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra premieres Missy Mazzoli’s Orpheus Undone at the Symphony Center in Chicago, IL.

The Eykamp String Quartet performs music by Missy Mazzoli at New Harmony Atheneum in New Harmony, Indiana.

Stolen Time Ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche at the Center for New Music in San Francisco, California.

Music, She Wrote String Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Lies You Can Believe In at the Chapter House in Melbourne, Australia, as part of the Music, She Wrote Festival.

Our maestro is often asked, “What works written today will be played in 100 years?” This concert is his answer! Missy Mazzoli’s tribute to the city of Detroit, River Rouge Transfiguration, and Michael Daugherty’s piece in memory of his father, Reflections on the Mississippi for Tuba and Orchestra, will leave you in awe.

Our maestro is often asked, “What works written today will be played in 100 years?” This concert is his answer! Missy Mazzoli’s tribute to the city of Detroit, River Rouge Transfiguration, and Michael Daugherty’s piece in memory of his father, Reflections on the Mississippi for Tuba and Orchestra, will leave you in awe.

LA Phil New Music Group performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for Violin at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, as part of the LA Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series.

OperaND performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up at the University of Notre Dame’s Decio Theatre in Notre Dame, Indiana.

OperaND performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up at the University of Notre Dame’s Decio Theatre in Notre Dame, Indiana.

The Orchestra of Indian Hill performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us at Littleton HS Performing Arts Center in  Littleton, Massachusetts.

OperaND performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up at the University of Notre Dame’s Decio Theatre in Notre Dame, Indiana.

Pianist Adam Tendler premieres Missy Mazzoli’s Forgiveness Machine for solo piano at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

OperaND performs Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up at the University of Notre Dame’s Decio Theatre in Notre Dame, Indiana.

The International Contemporary Ensemble performs works by Luna Lab Alumni at the Luna Composition Lab Alumni Showcase, hosted by Nia Imani Franklin at The Greene Space in New York, New York.

Face the Music and featured high schoolers premiere works by current Luna Composition Lab fellows in concert titled “Solar Flare” at Merkin Hall in New York, New York.

Totemic performs Missy Mazzoli’s Tooth and Nail at Kevin Barry Recital Room at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland.

Chris Grymes and Open G Series presents Missy Mazzoli’s Beyond the Order of Things as part of the Nia Imani Franklin concert event at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, New York.

The Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) for symphony orchestra.

The Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) for symphony orchestra.

The Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) for symphony orchestra.

Double Bassist Maria Krykov and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra perform Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at Musiikkltalo Concert Hall in Helsinki, Finland.

Amanda Van Story Lewis and Kassia Ensemble perform Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Amanda Van Story Lewis and Kassia Ensemble perform Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and cellist Amalie Stalheim premiere Missy Mazzoli’s Year of our Burning  at Håkonshallen in Bergen, Norway.

The MET Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), resembling the solar system with loops of sound twisting and spinning about each other as beautiful melodies float above the sound of a musical drone.

Members of the Adelaide Symphony perform Missy Mazzoli’s Lies You Can Believe In at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Hall in Adelaide, Australia, as part of the She Speaks Festival.

Pianist Yehuda Inbar performs Missy Mazzoli’s Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos at Casa Menotti in Spoleto, Italy, as part of the Spoleto Festival.

Pianist Adam Tendler performs Missy Mazzoli’s Forgiveness Machine for piano solo in the west-coast premiere of Tendler’s “Inheritances” Project at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles, California.

Members of the Richmond Symphony perform Missy Mazzoli’s The Sound of Light at Rhythm Hall, Richmond Symphony in Richmond, Virginia.

The Vadstena Summer Academy presents the Scandinavian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at the Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden.

The Vadstena Summer Academy presents the Scandinavian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at the Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden.

The Vadstena Summer Academy presents the Scandinavian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at the Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden.

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.

The Vadstena Summer Academy presents the Scandinavian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at the Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden.

The Vadstena Summer Academy presents the Scandinavian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at the Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden.

The Vadstena Summer Academy presents the Scandinavian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at the Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden.

The Vadstena Summer Academy presents the Scandinavian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at the Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden.

The Vadstena Summer Academy presents the Scandinavian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at the Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden.

The Vadstena Summer Academy presents the Scandinavian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at the Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden.

The Vadstena Summer Academy presents the Scandinavian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves at the Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden.

Violinist Jennifer Koh and the Philharmonie Orchestra present the UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England.

Violinist Jennifer Koh and the Philharmonia Orchestra perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto Procession at Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom, as part of the 2022 BBC Proms Festival.

Alexander Hülshoff, Sayaka Shoji, and fellow string players premiere chamber version of Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at the Arp Museum in Rolandseck, Germany as a part of Beethovenfest 2022.

University of South Carolina Voice Faculty perform the music of Missy Mazzoli at the School of Music Recital Hall in Columbia, South Carolina.

Kymi Sinfonietta performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright (Concerto for Contrabass and String Orchestra) at Kotka Concert Hall in Kotka, Finland.

Kymi Sinfonietta performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright (Concerto for Contrabass and String Orchestra) at Kotka Concert Hall in Kotka, Finland.

The Lahti Symphony Orchestra and violinist Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Sibelius Hall in Lahti, Finland.

Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo performs the music of Missy Mazzoli at Park Avenue Armory in New York City, New York.

Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo performs the music of Missy Mazzoli at Park Avenue Armory in New York City, New York.

Omega Ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli’s Harp and Altar at the Melbourne Recital Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

Opera Las Vegas performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the University of Las Vegas’ Black Box Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Norwegian National Opera presents the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners at the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.

Omega Ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli’s Harp and Altar at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.

Opera Las Vegas performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the University of Las Vegas’ Black Box Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the University of Charlottesville’s Old Cabel Hall in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Opera Las Vegas performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the University of Las Vegas’ Black Box Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the University of Charlottesville’s Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Norwegian National Opera presents the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners at the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.

Kuopio Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Orpheus Undone at the Kuopio Music Center Concert Hall in Kuopio, Finland.

Opera Philadelphia presents scenes from Missy Mazzoli’s opera Breaking the Waves in the film Soul(Signs), as part of the Opera on Film Festival at the Philadelphia Film Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Norwegian National Opera presents the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners at the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.

The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, Germany.

Rocket City New Music performs Missy Mazzoli’s A Thousand Tongues at Morton Hall in Huntsville, Alabama.

Norwegian National Opera presents the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners at the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and double bassist Maria Krykov perform Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at the Music House Concert Hall in Helsinki, Finland.

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and double bassist Maria Krykov perform Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at the Music House Concert Hall in Helsinki, Finland.

Norwegian National Opera presents the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners at the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.

Pianist Jeremy Denk performs Missy Mazzoli’s Heartbreaker at Sleepy Hollow High School in Westchester, New York.

Norwegian National Opera presents the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners at the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.

Louisiana State University Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Louisiana State University’s Union Theatre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Pianist Emanuele Arciuli performs Missy Mazzoli’s Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos at the San Filippo Neri Oratory in Bologna, Italy.

Missy Mazzoli is special guest at Third Coast Percussion Fall Benefit at the Floating World Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. The event will feature a sneak preview of her new work for percussion quartet titled Millennium Canticles.

Wermland Opera Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Violent, Violent Sea at Karlstad CCC in Karlstad, Sweden.

Oregon Mozart Players perform Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us (for chamber orchestra) at the University of Oregon’s Beall Hall in Eugene, Oregon.

Brown University Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Brown University’s Sayles Hall in Providence, Rhode Island.

PEI Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Brown University Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Brown University’s Sayles Hall in Providence, Rhode Island.

fivebyfive ensemble with harpist Amy Nam perform the music of Missy Mazzoli in an all-Philip Glass inspired program, at SUNY Potsdam’s Snell Music Theatre in Potsdam, New York.

Montgomery Philharmonic performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us (for full orchestra) at the Gaithersburg Presbyterian Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Opera Ithaca performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Hangar Performing Arts Center in Ithaca, New York.

Opera Ithaca performs Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Hangar Performing Arts Center in Ithaca, New York.

Roomful of Teeth performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vesper Sparrow at 2640 Space in Baltimore, Maryland.

Brian Mulligan releases a CD with Bright Shiny Records featuring Missy Mazzoli’s As Long As We Live.

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Cincinnati Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Cincinnati Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Jennifer Koh perform Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto (Procession) at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Leeds Conservatoire Orchestra and the Orchestra of Opera North perform Missy Mazzoli’s Holy Roller at Leeds Conservatoire’s The Venue in Leeds, England.

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

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

Manchester Collective performs Missy Mazzoli’s You Know Me From Here at Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Manchester Collective performs Missy Mazzoli’s You Know Me From Here at Southbank Theatre’s Purcell Room in London United Kingdom.

Tenor Nicholas Phan and Music from Copland House artists perform Missy Mazzoli’s The World Within Me is Too Small at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, New York.

Third Coast Percussion Quartet premieres Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles at Depaul University’s Holtschneider Performance Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Kronos Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Enthusiasm Strategies at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Mazzoleni Concert Hall in Toronto, Ontario.

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.

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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.

Register here

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.

The Missoula Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at the Dennison Theatre in Missoula, Montana.

The Missoula Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration at the Dennison Theatre in Missoula, Montana.

Musique 21 performs works by Missy Mazzoli at Michigan State University’s Fairchild Theatre in Lansing, Michigan.

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.

Verdigris Ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age at Meadow’s School of the Arts’ Owens Arts Center in Dallas, Texas.

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.

Augusta Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at the Miller Theater in Augusta, Georgia.

Maya Fridman performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age at the Willem Two Showroom in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

Riccardo Muti conducts former Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli’s evocative meditation on her father’s experiences as a soldier in Vietnam.

Riccardo Muti conducts former Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli’s evocative meditation on her father’s experiences as a soldier in Vietnam.

Riccardo Muti conducts former Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli’s evocative meditation on her father’s experiences as a soldier in Vietnam.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents world premiere of violin concerto version of Dark with Excessive Bright.

With Peter Herresthal, violin

Conducted by Natalie Stutzmann

Kuopio Symphony Orchestra performs the Finnish premiere of Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents world premiere of violin concerto version of Dark with Excessive Bright.

With Peter Herresthal, violin

Conducted by Natalie Stutzmann

Three portraits of America. Missy Mazzoli creates a solar system of sound, and John Adams pulls out the stops in his virtuosic orchestral showcase. Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill is the soloist in Anthony Davis’s autobiographical depiction of an unequal encounter with the police. Dalia Stasevska — the rising star who conducted the 2018 Nobel Prize Ceremony — leads the program.

Three portraits of America. Missy Mazzoli creates a solar system of sound, and John Adams pulls out the stops in his virtuosic orchestral showcase. Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill is the soloist in Anthony Davis’s autobiographical depiction of an unequal encounter with the police. Dalia Stasevska — the rising star who conducted the 2018 Nobel Prize Ceremony — leads the program.

Three portraits of America. Missy Mazzoli creates a solar system of sound, and John Adams pulls out the stops in his virtuosic orchestral showcase. Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill is the soloist in Anthony Davis’s autobiographical depiction of an unequal encounter with the police. Dalia Stasevska — the rising star who conducted the 2018 Nobel Prize Ceremony — leads the program.

Presented by San Francisco Performances, Missy Mazzoli and Jennifer Koh will perform live together at the Herbst Theatre.

Three portraits of America. Missy Mazzoli creates a solar system of sound, and John Adams pulls out the stops in his virtuosic orchestral showcase. Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill is the soloist in Anthony Davis’s autobiographical depiction of an unequal encounter with the police. Dalia Stasevska — the rising star who conducted the 2018 Nobel Prize Ceremony — leads the program.

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.

The Eastman Opera Theater presents Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up.

The Eastman Opera Theater presents Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up.

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.

The Eastman Opera Theater presents Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up.

Dallas Opera’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors performs Mazzoli’s His Name is Jan and Mental Health for their Showcase Concert.

The Eastman Opera Theater presents Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up.

The Charlottesville Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright in the Cabell Hall Auditorium in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Charlottesville Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at the University of Virginia’s Old Cabell Hall in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Eastman Opera Theater presents Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up.

The Charlottesville Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright in the Cabell Hall Auditorium in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Charlottesville Symphony performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Maya Fridman performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age at the Willem Two Showroom in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

Maya Fridman performs Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age at the Willem Two Showroom in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

BBC Philharmonic performs and broadcasts Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at MediaCityUK in Salford, England.

Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, with cello soloist Matt Haimovitz, premiere Missy Mazzoli’s Beyond the Order of Things (after Josquin) at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, California.

Resonance Chamber Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at the Greer Cabaret Theater Square in  Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Resonance Chamber Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright at the Greer Cabaret Theater Square in  Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Beo String Quartet and student artist Michael Delfin perform works by Missy Mazzoli at the UC College-Conservatory of Music’s Robert J. Werner Recital Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio.

For their highly anticipated homecoming, the Las Vegas Philharmonic will open with Missy Mazzoli’s beautifully moving work, These Worlds In Us followed by Beethoven’s masterful Triple Concerto.

Las Vegas Philharmonic performs Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us at the Smith Center for Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The MSU Symphony Orchestra performs Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Michigan State University’s Fairchild Theatre in East Lansing, Michigan.

Meta4 performs Missy Mazzoli’s Harp and Altar at Schauman Hall in Jakobstad, Finland.

Rusk Festival Artists perform Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche at Schauman Hall in Jakobstad, Finland.

The Extended Music Collective performs Missy Mazzoli’s Magic With Everyday Objects at the Joseph Ryelandtzaal in Bruges, Belgium.

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia.

Kronos Quartet performs Missy Mazzoli’s Enthusiasm Strategies at the University of California, Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall in  Berkeley, California.

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia.

The Extended Music Collective performs Missy Mazzoli’s Magic With Everyday Objects at the Leietheater in Deinze, Belgium.

The Civic Orchestra of Chicago performs Missy Mazzoli’s The Sound of Light at Symphony Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Julliard Alumni perform Missy Mazzoli’s As Long as we Live in “21c Liederabend Op. Senses” at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, New York, produced by Beth Morrison Projects.

Julliard Alumni perform Missy Mazzoli’s This World Within Me Is Too Small in “21c Liederabend Op. Senses” at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, New York, produced by Beth Morrison Projects.

SONO Ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli’s A Thousand Tongues at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, United Kingdom.

The Extended Music Collective performs Missy Mazzoli’s Magic With Everyday Objects at De Graaf in Ghent, Belgium.

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.