Not Strictly Speaking – Podcast
Elaine Mitchener & Joan La Barbara explore the voice as a sound producing instrument. Ahead of Assembly at Somerset House, Somerset House Studios talk to two vocal artists who stretch
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These Cost The Earth at Somerset House
Elaine Mitchener 's new work presented as part of Assembly 2024 will descend and rescale the New Wing staircase in a multi-storey performative cycle.
bachtrack – 14 April 2024
Apartment House’s day of delight, insight and excellence at Wigmore Hall
Christopher Woodley
“Mitchener’s versatility was to the fore in a graphic rendition of the piece, producing a tightly controlled primal scream as she literally found her voice, all aglow with the light of her upper range.”
Elaine’s Mix for cherry custard
Elaine is invited to curate this Mix for dublab: Hamilton, Lewis, Sanders, Cole, Bernard, de Saram, Hallett, Regina, Usui, Fermont, Masaoka, Lixenberg, Kalulé, Cox, Wall & Rodgers, Saviet, Das, Ortiz,
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.
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.”