VIDEO PODCAST: Discussion about Bernard Haitink (1929-2021), Salzburg, Roger Doyle's Finnegans Wake Project, the English Symphony Orchestra, the Chopin Competition Warsaw, Los Angeles Opera and other subjects.
RESOUNDING ECHOES: From August 2022, Robert McCarney's regular series features little-known twentieth century classical composers.
PODCAST: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Classical Music and Visual Disability, including contributions from Charlotte Hardwick, Robert McCarney, Halida Dinova and Giuseppe Pennisi.
American composer, pianist and teacher Missy Mazzoli was born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania on 27 October 1980. She studied at Boston University's College of Fine Arts, Yale and at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in the Netherlands. Her teachers included Louis Andriessen, Martin Bresnick, John Harbison, Aaron Jay Kernis, David Lang and Martijn Padding.
Her output includes four operas, orchestral and chamber music, and has been performed and recorded internationally by many high profile artists and groups.
More information: missymazzoli.com
Classical music news. August 2023 Newsletter - Watch and listen to our August 2023 one hour video newsletter - The Creative Spark
Ensemble. Thoroughly Collegial - Mike Wheeler listens to Missy Mazzolli, Brahms and Beethoven from James Ehnes and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kevin John Edusei
CD Spotlight. Out of the Ordinary - Eighth Blackbird's 'Meanwhile', heard by the late Howard Smith. '... an ear-catching feather in Cedille's musical cap.'
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