Eight Songs for a Mad King at Radialsystem
Elaine presents Eight Songs at Radialsystem Berlin in collaboration with Ensemble MAM. in a new staged version directed by Dam Van Huynh.
Author: pierre
The List – 8 April 2024
Change of Future
Stewart Smith
“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.”
New commission for The Hermes Experiment
The dynamic ensemble returns with works that blur the boundaries between music, theatre and improvisation
Tempo – October 2023
Elaine Mitchener/Apartment House, Wigmore Hall, 26 May 2023
Caroline Potter
“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.”
Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD) – August 2023
IN CONVERSATION WITH ELAINE MITCHENER AND JULIET FRASER
Sophie Emilie Beha
“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.”
Elaine Mitchener & Juliet Fraser at Darmstadt Summer Course 2023
Double Recital Elaine Mitchener and Juliet Fraser at Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2023
Eight Songs for a Mad King in the news
Eight Songs remains an intensely visceral piece with the capacity to shock
Prospect Magazine – 14 July 2023
When classical, rock and jazz music all pondered the meaning of England
Philip Clark
“Mitchener inhabited King George’s fracturing identities with an unsettling intensity.”
Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King at Wigmore Hall
Elaine Mitchener will become the first woman in the UK to perform Eight Songs for a Mad King on 26th May 2023