Victoire

The Stone; Sun 28

Photograph: Stephen Taylor

Amid performances at Galapagos Art Space, the Bang on a Can Marathon and (Le) Poisson Rouge, 2009 may well be the year of Missy Mazzoli. And nowhere is new music’s latest poster child more prominent than in her quintet, Victoire. Comprising Olivia De Prato on violin, Eileen Mack on clarinet, Eleonore Oppenheim on double bass, and Lorna Krier and Mazzoli on keyboards, Victoire churns out haunting, enveloping melodies that combine the Beethoven generation with the Beat generation. The result is classical music that isn’t exactly classical music, rock that’s not quite rock. Jazz riffs slide against Glassian violin passages, lo-fi tangos with the likes of Sibelius; echoes of Bowie bounce off, and meld with, the sound of a sewing machine.

Pushing the genre envelope comes easily to composer Mazzoli, who recently earned raves for her mini opera Song from the Uproar, presented as part of the New Amsterdam record label’s Undiscovered Islands series. In July, the Kronos Quartet will premiere another new work, Harp and Altar, at Celebrate Brooklyn.

Victoire’s show at the Stone this weekend is its last until September; summer will be spent on a studio album, Cathedral City, due later this year or early next. The group will feature selections from its atmospheric, ambient EP A Door Into the Dark, which teems with cool vibratos, mysterious hummings, pulsating rhythms and layers of answering-machine tape (the last in “I Am Coming for My Things”). As a teaser for the fall, you can expect some new songs as well.—Olivia Giovetti

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