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Missy Mazzoli Brooklyn, New York

These Worlds In Us (2006)

9 minutes
2.2.2.2—4.2.2.1—perc(3)—harp—strings
World Premiere: April 1, 2006, The Yale Philharmonia, Shinik Hahm

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Missy Mazzoli's music has been heard all over the world in performances by the Minnesota Orchestra, the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Spokane Symphony, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, NOW Ensemble, the Da Capo Chamber Players and many others. She's recently been commissioned by eighth blackbird, the Whitney Museum and Carnegie Hall. Missy was born in 1980 in Pennsylvania, and has studied composition at the Yale School of Music, the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, and Boston University. Her work was recently performed as part of the Bang-on-a-Can New Music Marathon and the 2007 Cabrillo Festival of New Music. In 2006 Missy was a featured composer at Merkin Hall in New York City and at the Gaudeamus New Music Festival in Amsterdam. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Grant to the Netherlands, the 2007 and 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and grants from the American Music Center and the Jerome Foundation. In 2006 she taught beginning composition at Yale University, and is now Executive Director of the MATA Festival of New Music in New York City, an organization founded by Philip Glass dedicated to commissioning and promoting new works by young composers. Missy is also an active pianist, and often performs with Victoire, an "all-star, all-female quintet" (Time Out New York) she founded in 2008 dedicated exclusively to her own compositions. Victoire has been performing in venues throughout New York City since 2007.

Recent projects included the premiere of Sound of the Light, a new work commissioned by Carnegie Hall and two performances of These Worlds In Us by the Minnesota Orchestra. Upcoming performances include the premiere of new works commissioned by eighth blackbird, the Whitney Museum of Art and the Santa Fe New Music Ensemble. She also recently received a Jerome Foundation Grant to support the creation of The Oblivion Seekers, a large-scale multimedia work featuring NOW Ensemble and filmmaker Stephen Taylor that will premiere in New York City in May, 2009.

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