24 June 2018
Cafe Oto – London, 19:30
Moor Mother / Pat Thomas / Elaine Mitchener (Trio)
Moor Mother / Pat Thomas (Duo)
Moor Mother / Pat Thomas / Elaine Mitchener (Trio)
Moor Mother / Pat Thomas (Duo)
Tansy Davies / Nick Drake: CAVE (world premiere)
In the cavernous warehouse space of The Printworks, this new music theatre work follows a grieving man’s quest for survival in a devastated world.
Tansy Davies composer
Nick Drake libretto
Mark Padmore tenor
Elaine Mitchener contralto
Lucy Bailey director
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
London Sinfonietta
Part of Oscillate Festival
A one day programme of music and sound as part of the Animals & Us exhibition, also featuring Leafcutter John & Dromloch, Evan Parker’s Trance Map, Nic Collins and others.
SWEET TOOTH
SWEET TOOTH marks the culmination of five years’ research by Mitchener into our love of sugar and the historical links between the UK sugar industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
SWEET TOOTH has been supported with public funding from Arts Council England. Commissioned by Bluecoat in partnership with the Stuart Hall Foundation, London and The International Slavery Museum with further support from PRSF Open Fund, Museum of London, Edge Hill University, Centre 151 and St George’s Bloomsbury.
Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet
Part of Alexander Hawkins Cafe Oto Residency
Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet
Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet
Part of Occupy the Pianos curated by pianist/composer Rolf Hind
Elaine will perform works by Rzweski, Eastman and with mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg works by Morton Feldman and Maxwell-Davies.
Eastman Invocations I – 24 March
Elaine performs Memorial by George E. Lewis and an improvisation with George Lewis & Sean Griffin
Eastman Invocations II – 25 March
Elaine performs The Nude Voice [solo I]