Missy Mazzoli
American composer and pianist
Missy Mazzoli (born October 27, 1980) is an American composer and pianist who has received critical acclaim for her chamber, orchestral and operatic work. In 2018 she became one of the first two women to receive a commission from the Metropolitan Opera House. She is the founder and keyboardist for Victoire, an electro-acoustic band. From 2012 to 2015 she was composer-in-residence at Opera Philadelphia, in collaboration with Gotham Chamber Opera and Music-Theater Group. Mazzoli received a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, a Fulbright Grant to the Netherlands, and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Classical Composition. In 2018, Mazzoli was named for a two-season term as the Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Mazzoli is a professor of composition at Bard College. She previously taught at the Mannes College of Music. Mazzoli was named the Bragg Artist-in-Residence at Mount Allison University in Canada beginning in 2022. Her music is published by G. Schirmer.
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Works
- A Thousand Tongues
- Bolts of Loving Thunder
- Dark with Excessive Bright
- Death Valley Junction
- Dissolve, O My Heart
- Ecstatic Science
- Forgiveness Machine
- Hail, Horrors, Hail
- Holy Roller
- Magic With Everyday Objects
- Millennium Canticles
- Millennium Canticles: I. Famous Disaster Psalm
- Millennium Canticles: II. The Doubter’s Litany
- Millennium Canticles: III. Bloodied Bells
- Millennium Canticles: IV. Choir of the Holy Locusts
- Millennium Canticles: V. Survival Psalm
- Orpheus Undone
- Orpheus Undone: Pt. 1: Behold the Machine, O Death
- Orpheus Undone: Pt. 2: We of Violence, We Endure
- Proving Up
- Proving Up, Pt. 1: The Settler’s Scar
- Proving Up, Pt. 2: Miles Will Prove Up
- Proving Up, Pt. 3: How Pa Obtained the Glass
- Proving Up, Pt. 4: Strange Dreams
- Proving Up, Pt. 5: Nore at a Soft Canter
- Proving Up, Pt. 6: Sodbuster
- Proving Up: Epilogue (All That's Required)
- Proving Up: Prologue (Uncle Sam's Farm)
- Salt
- Salt: Five
- Salt: Four
- Salt: One
- Salt: Three
- Salt: Two
- Self-Portrait with Dishevelled Hair
- Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
- Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt
- Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt: II. This World Within Me Is Too Small
- Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt: XII. You Are the Dust
- Still Life with Avalanche
- These Worlds in Us
- Tooth and Nail
- Vesper Sparrow
- Vespers for Violin
- Vespers for a New Dark Age
- Vespers for a New Dark Age: Come on All You
- Vespers for a New Dark Age: Hello Lord
- Vespers for a New Dark Age: Interlude 1
- Vespers for a New Dark Age: Interlude 2
- Vespers for a New Dark Age: Machine
- Vespers for a New Dark Age: New Dark Age
- Vespers for a New Dark Age: Postlude
- Vespers for a New Dark Age: Wayward Free Radical Dreams
- Violin Concerto (Procession)
- Violin Concerto (Procession): I. Procession in a Spiral
- Violin Concerto (Procession): II. St, Vitus
- Violin Concerto (Procession): III. O My Soul
- Violin Concerto (Procession): IV. Bone to Bone, Blood to Blood
- Violin Concerto (Procession): V. Procession Ascending