Critics celebrate Missy Mazzoli’s new album Dark with Excessive Bright, released with Bis Records on March 3rd, 2023. Read reviewer quotes below: “Ms. Mazzoli’s disinclination to embrace a specific school of thought about tonality or style, and her imaginative approach to…
Maybe all artists envy makers in other mediums; every novelist I know, at least, would much rather be a painter or a composer. Listening to Missy Mazzoli’s music, I feel what I want to feel (and to make others feel)…
Missy Mazzoli’s new album Dark with Excessive Bright is OUT TODAY on Bis Records. The album features world premiere recordings of four orchestral works: violin concerto Dark with Excessive Bright, Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), These Worlds in Us and Orpheus…
Opera Philadelphia announces Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s The Listeners to be featured at 024 Festival in fall of 2024.
Missy Mazzoli’s upcoming album Dark with Excessive Bright featured in Alex Ross’s Nightafternight playlist under “new and recent releases of interest.” The album will be released with BIS Records on March 3, 2023.
World premiere collaboration between Missy Mazzoli and Rufus Wainwright at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York, New York, on May 2, 2023. Visit the link for more information and tickets.
Livestream Juilliard Opera’s performance of Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up on Sunday, February 19th at 2:00pm EST. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9pDeaNSdc
New album “Dark with Excessive Bright” out March 3rd on Bis Records, with violinist Peter Herresthal, the Arctic Philharmonic, the Bergen Philharmonic, and conductors Tim Weiss and James Gaffigan. Featuring the world premiere recordings of FOUR orchestral works: Dark with…
“As a youngster in rural Pennsylvania, Missy Mazzoli knew she didn’t want to become an astronaut or a nurse. Instead, she announced at age 10 that she was a composer — even though she hadn’t yet written a note. The…
An album featuring the world premiere of four orchestral works by Missy Mazzoli With performances by violinist Peter Herresthal, the Bergen Philharmonic and the Arctic Philharmonic, conducted by Tim Weiss and James GaffiganFeaturing world premiere recordings of Dark with Excessive…
“Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek will each receive a Marc Blitzstein Memorial Award of $10,000, which are given in the memory of Marc Blitzstein to composers, lyricists, or librettists to encourage the creation of works of merit for…
Acclaimed music critic and author Alex Ross calls Missy Mazzoli’s latest opera The Listeners “a potent, chilling and excruciatingly relevant work” (The Rest is Noise). In The New Yorker, Ross labels Missy among “a growing cohort of American women taking possession of…