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Basic Facts
Born: October 27, 1980, Abington, Pennsylvania
Type of Performer: Composer, pianist
Genre: Classical (loosely)
About Missy Mazzoli
Missy Mazzoli was born in 1980 in Abington, Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Boston University in 2002 and her Master of Music degree in music composition from Yale School of Music in 2006. She also pursued graduate work at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag in the Netherlands. In 2008, she founded Victoire, an all-female band dedicated to performing her compositions. She plays piano for the group and they have released two albums of her music. She has been on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music at the New School since 2013.
Mazzoli premiered her first opera, Song From The Uproar, in 2012 at The Kitchen in New York City. Since then, her music has been performed all over the world, including by groups such as the Kronos Quartet, the LA Opera, the Sydney Symphony, and numerous others. She has also written extensively for film and television, including for the hit show Mozart In The Jungle. Her awards include a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, a 2017 Music Critics Association of America Award, and a 2019 GRAMMY nomination, among many others. In 2016, she founded the Luna Composition Lab, which provides fellowships for young female composers to help encourage their careers. In 2018, she made history as one of the first two women to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. She is currently the Mead Composer-In-Residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Listen
Still Life With Avalanche, performed by eighth blackbird
Wayward Free Radical Dreams, performed by Victoire
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