BBC SO Total Immersion: Missy Mazzoli
Pianist, visionary, musical dramatist and Grammy-nominated composer, Missy Mazzoli has been called 'the 21st century’s gatecrasher of new classical music'.
She’s an artist for whom the personal is political, and in whose hands the intimate stories of modern America take on an epic scale and a global significance. 'With each work, I endeavour to provide a new language for thoughts and feelings we suppress in everyday life' she says - 'to provide space in which we can process the overwhelming nature of the world'. With participation from the composer herself, this BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion day explores the whole range of her work: a close encounter with one of the most singular – and potent – voices of the new millennium.
Events
BBC SO Total Immersion: Missy Mazzoli's Song from the Uproar
The UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Song from the Uproar, the story of a woman who redefined the possible, performed by mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, the BBC Singers and musicians from the BBC SO.
BBC SO Total Immersion: Missy Mazzoli – New worlds
For Missy Mazzoli, small ensembles unlock infinite possibilities, and her music for ensemble and electronics finds her exploring the wildest reaches of a boundless musical imagination.
BBC SO Total Immersion: Missy Mazzoli – Worlds in Us
Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra as the composer introduces four of her most powerful (and personal) orchestral pieces.
