Missy Mazzoli
Born: 27th October 1980, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Missy Mazzoli 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.
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Further Reading: Mazzoli
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Missy Mazzoli on Breaking the Waves
3rd Sep 2026
Fresh from the premiere of The Galloping Cure at the Edinburgh Festival, the American composer looks back on her 2016 opera inspired by Lars von Trier's 1996 film, which was recently recorded by Houston Grand Opera and released on their own label last month.
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Missy Mazzoli on Dark with Excessive Bright
16th May 2023
In the wake of the first full-length album of her orchestral music on BIS, the American composer talks about the writers and musicians who've inspired her work...
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Choral
All Works: Mazzoli
- A Map of Laughter (2)
- A Thousand Tongues (3)
- As Long as We Live (1)
- Bolts of Loving Thunder (2)
- Dark with Excessive Bright (1)
- Death Valley Junction (1)
- Dissolve, O My Heart (6)
- Hail, Horrors, Hail (1)
- Harp and Altar (1)
- Hello Lord (from Vespers for a New Dark Age) (1)
- Impromptu (Thomas's piece) (1)
- Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos (3)
- Millennium Canticles (1)
- Orpheus Undone (1)
- Proving Up (1)
- Quartet for Queen Mab (1)
- Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) (4)
- Song from the Uproar: This World Within Me Is too Small (1)
- Song from the Uproar: You Are the Dust (1)
- The Elastic Heart of Youth (1)
- The Listeners (1)
- These Worlds in Us (1)
- Tooth and Nail (2)
- Vespers for a New Dark Age (1)
- Vespers for Violin (3)
Recent Best Sellers: Mazzoli
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New. Missy Mazzoli: Breaking the Waves
Lauren Snouffer (Bess McNeill), Ryan McKinny (Jan Nyman), Maire Therese Carmack (Dodo McNeill), David Portillo (Dr Richardson), Michelle Bradley (Bess's Mother); Houston Grand Opera, Patrick Summers
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Unraveling
Tim Fain
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, Editor's Choice
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Gaïa
Gautier Capuçon (cello), Jérôme Ducros (piano), Ayanna Witter-Johnson (cello), Ludovico Einaudi (piano), Frank Braley (piano), Olivia Belli (piano), Abel Selaocoe (cello), Sarah Rebecca (vocals), Capucelli
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Missy Mazzoli & Royce Vavrek: Proving Up
Opera Omaha, International Contemporary Ensemble, Christopher Rountree
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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New. Missy Mazzoli: Breaking the Waves
Lauren Snouffer (Bess McNeill), Ryan McKinny (Jan Nyman), Maire Therese Carmack (Dodo McNeill), David Portillo (Dr Richardson), Michelle Bradley (Bess's Mother); Houston Grand Opera, Patrick Summers
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New. Grand Band Live
Grand Band, Kate Moore, Lisa Moore, Erika Dohi, David Friend, Paul Kerekes, Blair McMillen (piano), Isabelle O’Connell, Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli, Julius Eastman
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New. 2026 TMEA: All-State Sinfonietta Orchestra
2026 TMEA All-State Sinfonietta Orchestra, Dr. Michael Alexander, Katherine Kilburn
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New. The Elastic Heart of Youth
Bruce Levingston (piano)
CD: Original price $18.50 Reduced $15.35Download from $10.00
