“So far in her impressive career, the music of composer Missy Mazzoli has mostly defied labels,” writes Lisa Houston in Tuesday’s (8/7) San Francisco Classical Voice. “Categorizations like ‘multimedia’ or the more flattering ‘dynamic amalgamation’ carry little weight with the 37-year-old New Yorker, who grew up … ‘listening to all kinds of music … We had a piano and I fell in love with classical music but was not steered in any particular direction.… Whatever the piece requires I can pull from this toolbox of influences.’… Next week, she heads to Santa Cruz, where the West Coast premiere of her orchestral piece Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) will anchor a program at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music … Mazzoli’s musical accomplishments include a notable performance career with her own ensemble, Victoire, and premieres of a variety of works with classical organizations … as well as collaborations with more cutting-edge performers and composers … Mazzoli makes for a new kind of role model, a working female composer who is creating works on her own terms … ‘The purpose of creating music is to feel less alone, to create a community around the work to express something that can’t be expressed in words,’ she says.”
Posted August 10, 2018
