LACO’s November 2019 concert weekend saw Music Director Jaime Martín, and Principal Bass David Grossman joining forces to tackle GRAMMY Award-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli's "Dark With Excessive Bright" for Double Bass and Strings. 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) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York). Mazzoli is LACO’s 2019/20 Artist-in-residence and her music has been performed all over the world by the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, pianist Emanuel Ax, Opera Philadelphia, Scottish Opera, LA Opera, Cincinnati Opera, New York City Opera, Chicago Fringe Opera, the Detroit Symphony and the LA Philharmonic. In 2018 she was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best Classical Composition” for her work Vespers for Violin, recorded by violinist Olivia De Prato.