Renowned Composer Missy Mazzoli Looks Back at Her Time As CSO's Mead Composer In-Residence
WDCB’s Gary Zidek checks in with award-winning composer Missy Mazzoli as her tenure as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mead Composer In-Residence comes to an end.
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“Even in just those two concerts, you get an incredibly wide array of approaches, styles and instrumentations, and that’s the thing that I’m most proud of coming out of my residency with the CSO, is that I was able to connect the Chicago Symphony to some of the most amazing composers working today.” - Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s outgoing Mead Composer In-Residence Missy Mazzoli talking about the music that her approach to programming the CSO’s MusicNOW series and the next episodes of CSO Sessions.
Composer Missy Mazzoli. Photo credit: Todd Rosenberg
It’s been almost three years since the Chicago Symphony Orchestra appointed renowned composer Missy Mazzoli as it’s 10th ever Mead Composer In-Residence. Her tenure was originally supposed to come to a close in the summer of 2020, but the pandemic changed everything and it was extended into this year. Mazzoli, who programmed the CSO’s contemporary MusicNOW series during her time in Chicago, has curated two upcoming episodes of CSO Sessions, one of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s virtual offerings available to watch on CSOtv.
Missy Mazzoli in Chicago October 2018
