Arctic Chamber Music Festival at Artica in 2024 with Sebastiaan Molenaar, percussion. Photo: Aggie Peterson

Artica Svalbard and the Arctic Chamber Music Festival are pleased to invite you to an after-work gathering with sounds, soup and stories

Unwind after your workday and join us for a cozy and inspiring Friday afternoon that blends live music, thought-provoking ideas, and a delicious bowl of soup to warm your soul. Festival’s artist and composer Missy Mazzoli (USA) will guide us through a selection of her written works, which are performed live by some of the festival artists, and finest performers from Voksenåsen Academy.

What is the reason that led her to writing these compositions – and what are the stories behind them?

Please note: The ticket includes a concert, a talk and warm soup!
We will open the doors at 15.00, so you have time to talk and eat a bit, before the program starts at 15.30.
The event will be finished ca 16.30.

This event is part of the ACMF festival pass. For ticket details see here.

About Missy Mazzoli
Grammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli was recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times). Her music has been performed all over the world by the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, Dublin’s Crash Ensemble, pianist Emanuel Ax, Opera Philadelphia, Scottish Opera, Opera Comique, LA Opera, Cincinnati Opera, the Detroit Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, JACK Quartet, violinist Jennifer Koh, mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, and many others. Her most recent opera, The Listeners, (commissioned by Opera Philadelphia, Norwegian National Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera) was created with longtime collaborator Royce Vavrek and playwright Jordan Tannahill and premiered in September 2022 in Oslo in a production directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz.

Missy Mazzoli, photo by Caroline Tompkins