Performance-installation at Mount Stuart – 11 & 12 September 2026
Elaine Mitchener has composed new work in response to Mount Stuart. The performance-installation will take place at Mount Stuart at 6pm on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 September 2026.
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Visions – A collaboration with New European Ensemble
Elaine Mitchener has curated an evening for the New European Ensemble filled with visions from diverse eras and cultures ranging from the activist minimalist Julius Eastman to the Italian sound
New commission for Soprano Mimi Doulton
Soprano Mimi Doulton performs brand new works from British-Caribbean composer Elaine Mitchener; Irish composer Linda Buckley; and Estonian composer Krõõt-Kärt Kaev
No More Excuses I at Wiener Festwochen 2026 | Free Republic of Vienna
No More Excuses I celebrates the sounds between and shines a spotlight on significant female pioneers who are shaping the discourse on cultural identity
Jazzwise – 6 May 2026
Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2026
Tony Benjamin
“Witnessing their brilliant collective creativity was a heart-warming privilege that will resound long after the festival’s finale.”
TDE Promotions – 16 April 2026
Elaine Mitchener and The Power Of Four at Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Tony Dudley Evans
“My work with the Power of Four fits in perfectly with all my other work as I see them as interconnected – it’s still ensemble playing but with different repertoire and ‘feel’, but the openness to mining ideas remains the same.”
Always, Already There, 23-25 October at Barbican & GSMD
'Always, Already There' is the first UK edition of George Lewis’s Afrodiasporic Incubator project, curated by vocalist and composer Elaine Mitchener
Metal Mark Time at Auto Italia
Elaine Mitchener presents Metal Mark Time, a newly commissioned vocal performance based on the artist’s personal connections to Tower Hamlets, and inspired by The Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
Dance Art Journal – 25 March 2026
Graffiti Bodies XV by Dam Van Huynh, Elaine Mitchener & Michael Picknett
Qiao Lin Tan
In a world where it feels like injustice and oppression repeats itself in different guises with every news story and social media post, Graffiti Bodies XV reminds us that amongst the multiple layers of shittery, there are always layers upon layers of hope, justice and community to look for as well.