Missy Mazzoli

American composer Missy Mazzoli emerged in the 2010s as a popular composer in New York and beyond. Much of her music falls into the conventional genres of opera, orchestral music, and chamber music, but she has worked with indie rock musicians as well and appealed to fans of that genre also. Her music has been diffused partly through a band of her own creation as well as through performances by established ensembles. Mazzoli was born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 1980. She attended the Yale School of Music, the Royal Conservatory of the Hague (studying there with...