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“So far in her impressive career, the music of composer Missy Mazzoli has mostly defied labels. Categorizations like “multimedia” or the more flattering “dynamic amalgamation” carry little weight with the 37-year-old New Yorker, who grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent a lot of time “driving around the suburbs listening to all kinds of music. I grew up in a very nonmusical family,” she says speaking on the phone with SFCV from Greenwood Music Camp in Massachusetts. “We had a piano and I fell in love with classical music but was not steered in any particular direction. To me it’s a natural outgrowth of all of my interests. Whatever the piece requires I can pull from this toolbox of influences.” “