SFNM is honored to announce the composer for the 2008 SFNM CoMission Club: Missy Mazzoli. Considered one of the freshest and most exciting new compositional voices in classical music, her influences range from Beethoven to Balinese Gamelan.
In addition to her rising compositional status, Ms. Mazzoli was recently appointed Executive Director of New York's Music at the Anthology Festival, a showcase for young composers that was founded by Philip Glass.
Ms. Mazzoli writes for melodicas, out-of-tune guitars and electronics as well as orchestras and string quartets to create a truly unique sound.
She has been called "gifted" by Alex Ross of the New Yorker, and was highly praised by the New York Times after the Minnesota Orchestra's performance of her work These Worlds In Us. In addition to our SFNM CoMission Club commission, she is presently finishing commissions from Eighth Blackbird and the Albany Symphony.
Expressing his delight in securing a commission with Missy, SFNM’s Artistic Director John Kennedy says, "Missy is a real talent. Some years down the road, when we look at the legacy of the SFNM CoMission Club, we’ll be satisfied with our prescience in having commissioned one of her early works. I am also really thrilled to be commissioning a young woman composer with such a fresh and exhilarating voice."
The SFNM CoMission Club was launched to give individuals and groups the opportunity to invest in the commissioning of a new piece of music by a major American composer. The first work, Sea Tropes by Ingram Marshall, was premiered by SFNM in October, 2007.
Membership is national, with participants in the first commission coming from several states."SFNM may premiere these works locally," explains John Kennedy, "but they have a life beyond Santa Fe, and our impact reaches the national and international scale."
Through the CoMission Club, individuals and groups can "invest"
towards the commissioning of a new piece of music by a major American
composer. Memberships start at $100, with opportunities
to attend rehearsals, meet the composer, and play a role in assigning
the commission scaled in with membership levels.
About the SFNM CoMission Club