MISSY MAZZOLI

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Recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (NY Times), Missy Mazzoli has had her music performed by the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony, the Cincinnati Orchestra, the National Symphony, LA Opera, Opera Australia, Scottish Opera, Opera Comique, Norwegian National Opera, eighth blackbird, Kronos Quartet and many others. She is one of the first two women to receive a commission from the Metropolitan Opera for the forthcoming Lincoln in the Bardo. Highlights of 2024-25 season include the US and German premieres of The Listeners with Opera Philadelphia and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and a new production with the Aalto Music Theater in Essen. The Artic Philharmonic released an all-Mazzoli album in 2023. She has been nominated twice for Grammy awards for Best Classical Composition. Recent commissions include Violin Concerto: Procession for Jennifer Koh and the National Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, and the BBC Proms; the opera The Listeners for Opera Philadelphia, Chicago Lyric Opera, Norwegian National Opera; and Millenium Canticles for Third Coast Percussion. She was Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2018-2021), and with Opera Philadelphia (2012-15). In 2024 she was the focus of a BBC Total Immersion and featured composer at the Winnipeg New Music Festival. In 2016, with composer Ellen Reid, she founded Luna Composition Lab, a mentorship program for young female, nonbinary and gender nonconforming composers. Her works are published exclusively by G. Schirmer.

Photo: Marylene Mey