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Missy Mazzoli

Missy Mazzoli was born on October 27th, 1980 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Mazzoli attended the Yale School of Music, the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, and Boston University. She studied under David Lang, Louis Andriessen, Martin Bresnick, Aaron Jay Kernis, Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres, John Harbison, Charles Fussell, Martin Amlin, Marco Stroppa, Ladislav Kubik, Louis DeLise and Richard Cornell.

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In 2006 Mazzoli was a professor of composition at Yale University. In 2007 Mazzoli was appointed Executive Director of the MATA Festival, which is dedicated to performing works by young composers. From 2001 to 2012 she was the Composer in Residence with the Albany Symphony and in 2012 she moved to the Opera Company of Philadelphia. In 2014 Mazzoli’s ensemble Victoire premiered Vespers for a Dark Age at Carnegie Hall. Mazzoli has won several awards including a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, four ASCAP Young Composer Awards, a Fulbright Grant to the Netherlnds, the Detroit Symphony’s Elaine Lebenbom Award, as well as grants from the Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, and the Barlow Endowment. Mazzoli has also received Fellowships from the Macdowell, Yaddo, Ucross, VCCA, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Hermitage.