Missy Mazzoli

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Missy Mazzoli is a delinquent tap dancer turned insomniac composer, whose influences range from Beethoven to Balinese Gamelan. She writes for melodicas, out-of-tune guitars and electronics as well as orchestras and string quartets to create a truly unique sound. Her music has been performed by NOW Ensemble, Newspeak, Present Music, Dinosaur Annex and ALEA III, and was a featured performer at Amsterdam's Gaudeamus Festival of New Music, where she performed with her electro-acoustic band, Hills Not Skyscrapers. In 2002 Missy received a Fulbright Grant and traveled to the Netherlands, where she worked with composer Louis Andriessen. In March, 2006 Missy was a featured composer and performer at New York City's Merkin Hall, as part of their Ear Department: Emerging Composers Series. In 2004 she was composer-in-residence at STEIM, Amsterdam's center for electronic music, where she created electro-acoustic works for the Insomnio Ensemble. She has received additional grants from the American Music Center and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2005, along with composers Judd Greenstein and David T. Little and filmmaker Stephen Taylor, Missy founded Free Speech Zone Productions, an organization dedicated to bringing new music to broad audiences. Missy is an active pianist and keyboardist, and often performs with Victoire, a band she founded in 2008 dedicated to her own compositions. Their debut full-length CD, Cathedral City, was named one of 2010′s best classical album

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Missy Mazzoli: Vespers for a New Dark Age

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Currents

Victoire: Cathedral City

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Awake

Mozart in the Jungle, Season 3 (An Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)

Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright

Song From The Uproar (The Lives And Deaths Of Isabelle Eberhardt)

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Render

Nadia Sirota: Baroque

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Dark with Excessive Bright: Concerto for Contrabass and String Orchestra

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