Dark with Excessive Bright album featured in Klassekampen’s Musikkmagasinet list of Best Albums of the Year 2023
Missy Mazzoli’s album Dark with Excessive Bright featured in Norway’s Klassekampen Musikkmagasinet list of Best Albums of the Year 2023.
Category: Uncategorized
Dark with Excessive Bright named one of the top 50 albums of 2023 by NPR
Missy Mazzoli’s album Dark with Excessive Bright named one of the top 50 albums of 2023 by NPR. Dark with Excessive Bright was released in March of 2023 on BIS Records, and features violinist Peter Herresthal, conductor James Gaffigan, and the Bergen and Arctic…
Missy Mazzoli nominated for two of the 2024 GRAMMY awards
Missy Mazzoli has been nominated for two of the 2024 GRAMMY Awards: Best Classical Compendium for her album Dark with Excessive Bright and Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her piece “Dark with Excessive Bright” on the same album. The album…
Missy Mazzoli selected for BBC Total Immersion, a weekend of concerts in London devoted to her work, presented by the BBC
Missy Mazzoli has been selected as composer-in-residence for the latest BBC TOTAL IMMERSION, a weekend of concerts in London February 24-25, presented by the BBC Symphony, the Guildhall School, and the BBC Singers. Click here for a full program: BBC Total…
Cincinnati Opera and CCM to Workshop Lincoln in the Bardo: a new opera by Missy Mazzoli And Royce Vavrek
Cincinnati Opera and Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music have announced the next workshop in their groundbreaking joint program, Opera Fusion: New Works. In collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera, the Cincinnati partners will host a workshop in November 2023 for the new…
Missy Mazzoli first international woman composer programmed at Opera Australia
Missy Mazzoli is the first international woman composer programmed at Opera Australia, as part of their 2024 season with her piece Breaking the Waves, written in collaboration with librettist Royce Vavrek. Show dates July 26th and 28th, 2024. Breaking the Waves
Luna Composition Lab Applications Now Open!
Applications for Luna Composition Lab 2023 – 2024 are now open! Apply by September 15 for the Luna Lab Fellowship or Adventures in Sound. More information available at lunacompositionlab.org.
Missy Mazzoli interviewed by Emma Robertson for The talks
Missy Mazzoli interviewed by Emma Robertson for The talks, on August 16, 2023. View full interview at the attached link. “The goal can’t be to make art to satisfy everyone’s demands, because then you’re not really creating anything that is…
Missy’s new percussion work Millennium Canticles part of Third Coast Percussion’s newest album, out September 8th
Missy Mazzoli’s latest percussion work Millennium Canticles part of Third Coast Percussion’s newest album Between Breaths, out September 8th, 2023. Streaming available on Spotify and Apple Music.
Missy Mazzoli’s “Dark with Excessive Bright” included on An Earful’s Best of 2023 (So Far)
Missy Mazzoli’s album Dark with Excessive Bright included on An Earful’s “Best of 2023 (So Far)” by Jeremy Shatan.
Luna Composition Lab to host 2023 Festival and Concert in New York, NY
The 2023 Luna Lab Festival will feature this year’s six selected composition fellows as they travel to New York and participate in a series of workshops, performances, and networking events, culminating in a concert of their world premieres, “New Moons.”…
Critics continue to praise Missy Mazzoli’s 2023 album “Dark with Excessive Bright”
Critics continue to praise Missy Mazzoli’s 2023 album Dark with Excessive Bright, released with BIS Records. “[Dark with Excessive Bright]” is an intoxicating work that packs a frequently disorienting punch, heaving with shimmering, shuddering strings…Herresthal also gives an ethereal performance…