Bang on a Can

Missy Mazzoli writes for melodiacs, out-of-tune guitars and electronics as well as orchestras and string quartets. In the past year 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. Missy has received a Fulbright Grant, been a featured composer and performer at New York City's Merkin Hall as part of their Ear Department: Emerging Composers Series,and been a composer-in-residence at STEIM, Amsterdam's center for electronic music. In 2005, along with composers Judd Greenstein and David T. Little and filmmaker Stephen Taylor, Missy founded Free Speech Zone Productions (http://www.fszproductions.com), an organization dedicated to bringing new music to broad audiences. They are currently working on (in)visible, a multimedia documentary-opera that will premiere in New York in November 2007. Missy is a graduate of the Yale School of Music, the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, and Boston University. She is currently teaching composition at Yale University.