Boston University Center for New Music Welcomes Missy Mazzoli for Three-Day Composer Residency
Boston University Center for New Music Welcomes Missy Mazzoli for Three-Day Composer Residency
Described by Time Out New York as “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart,” Missy Mazzoli is one of America’s preeminent composers.
Grammy-nominated composer and BU College of Fine Arts alum Missy Mazzoli (CFA’02, BUTI’98) is the Mead Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and her music has been performed all over the world by the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, pianist Emanuel Ax, Opera Philadelphia, Scottish Opera, LA Opera, Cincinnati Opera, New York City Opera, Chicago Fringe Opera, the Detroit Symphony, the LA Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, JACK Quartet, cellist Maya Beiser, violinist Jennifer Koh, pianist Kathleen Supové, Dublin’s Crash Ensemble, the Sydney Symphony and many others.
Mazzoli and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Ellen Reid started the Luna Composition Lab, in collaboration with the Kaufman Music Center in New York, to give teenage female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming composers a head start. Mazzoli also makes it her practice to advocate for better representation for women, publicly when needed.
Missy Mazzoli Residency at BU
The Boston University Center for New Music is thrilled to welcome Missy Mazzoli for a three-day residency, from March 27-29, as part of its 2022-2023 season. This year, BU music students have engaged with dynamic artists from the contemporary music world, including acclaimed composer Georg Friedrich Haas, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun, and now Grammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli.
Monday, March 27, 2023
5-7pm | Composition Masterclass | B38 (basement level at College of Fine Arts building – 855 Comm. Ave.)
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
9:30-10:45am | Composer’s Forum Presentation | CFA 171
About the BU Center for New Music
For over a decade, the BU Center for New Music (CNM) at Boston University College of Fine Arts (CFA) School of Music has been a potent force for new music. BU CNM brings dynamic figures from the contemporary music world to work with BU students and engage with the city of Boston’s groundbreaking arts venues for residencies that include performances, collaborations, and events that merge the realms of composition, improv, electronic music, and visual arts.