The Wire – May 2021
Elaine Mitchener & Guests at Wigmore Hall
Andy Hamilton
“This is an imaginatively conceived recital.”
Author: pierre
Evening Standard – 6 May 2021
The Wigmore Hall at 120: musicians from Sheku Kanneh-Mason to Dame Sarah Connolly on the London icon
Nancy Durrant
“From its banging acoustics to its welcoming audience – and one of the music world’s best-loved artistic directors, the venue’s charms have won the hearts of musicians”
TDE Promotions – 15 April 2021
Two Live Streams from Wigmore Hall: Trish Clowes and Elaine Mitchener
Tony Dudley-Evans
“This was an outstanding start to the Associate Artists programme with Trish and Elaine, and encouraging evidence of an openness on the part of the Wigmore Hall, and also of the broader issue of the genre fluidity of so much contemporary music.”
“Listening”, the first Sounds Now publication
Elaine contributes to this first volume in a series of publications planned by Sounds Now
Elaine appointed Associate Artist with Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall’s Director John Gilhooly appoints nine new Associate Artists
We Have Delivered Ourselves from the Tonal
Elaine is one of the contributors for We Have Delivered Ourselves from the Tonal
The Enormity of the Now – 25 March 2021
We’re in the business of the new.
“Elaine Mitchener creates in order to challenge – others and herself. She’s not looking for the comfort zone. We talked about necessary questions and uncomfortable answers.”
The Wire – March 2021
Black Top Presents: Hamid Drake/Elaine Mitchener/William Parker/Orphy Robinson/ Pat Thomas
Some Good News
Otoroku 2xCD/DL
“The work of this unique group shows how free improv can incorporate various genre musics, merging them into a miraculously coherent yet spontaneous whole.”
The Quietus – 24 February 2021
Rum Music For February Reviewed
Jennifer Lucy Allan
“Put The Brakes On’ is a suite of imaginary spaces, the galactic Black Top electronics swirl in while Mitchener putters and yelps like a meteor shower, as Drake, Parker and Thomas’ driving rhythm section erupts.”