The music of Brooklyn-based composer Missy Mazzoli has been performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, LA Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Scottish Opera, Opéra Comique, LA Opera, the Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird and many others. She was recently described as “one of the more inventive and surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times), and “a once-in-a-generation magician of the orchestra” (The New Yorker), has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, most recently for her orchestral album Dark with Excessive Bright, and has served as composer-in-residence at the Chicago Symphony and Opera Philadelphia. In 2018 she became, along with Jeanine Tesori, one of the first two women to receive a commission from the Metropolitan Opera. In 2016 Mazzoli and composer Ellen Reid founded Luna Composition Lab, a nonprofit mentorship program for young female and nonbinary composers. Mazzoli teaches composition at Bard College and her works are published by G. Schirmer. missymazzoli.com.