Mezzacappa, Lisa
Lisa Mezzacappa is a San Francisco Bay Area composer, bassist, bandleader, and producer whose activities include ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, avant-garde jazz, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, video, sculpture, and installation art. Mezzacappa has been awarded residencies and grants from Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, the MAP Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation, among others. She was voted “Rising Star Bassist” in the 2013 and 2014 Downbeat Jazz Critics Polls and has released her recordings on the international labels Clean Feed, Leo, NotTwo, and NoBusiness.
photo: Heike Liss
