“Pushing boundaries is nothing new for experimental vocalist Elaine Mitchener. Stewart Smith hears how her bold reworking of songs plays an important role in promoting the work of black avant-garde composers.”
The dynamic ensemble returns with works that blur the boundaries between music, theatre and improvisation
“Mitchener’s performance was quite simply extraordinary. She held nothing back in her traversal of the enormous vocal range of the work, and her total inhabiting of the character was the enduring memory of the evening.”
“They are among the most versatile and go-getting singers of our time. Elaine Mitchener deepened her love of singing as a teenager, through gospel music and jazz, and later through classical training at the conservatory. Juliet Fraser did not begin singing seriously until she was 20 years old – until then she wanted to be an oboist. For both, singing was a need, a form of artistic expression, a fulfillment.”
Double Recital Elaine Mitchener and Juliet Fraser at Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2023
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Eight Songs remains an intensely visceral piece with the capacity to shock
“Mitchener inhabited King George’s fracturing identities with an unsettling intensity.”
