20-22 April 2018

St John’s Smith Square, 19:30

Part of Occupy the Pianos curated by pianist/composer Rolf Hind

Elaine will perform works by Rzweski, Eastman and with mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg works by Morton Feldman and Maxwell-Davies.

24-25 March 2018

silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin – Germany

Presented by SAVVY Contemporary and Maerz Music

Eastman Invocations I – 24 March

Elaine performs Memorial by George E. Lewis and an improvisation with George Lewis & Sean Griffin 

Eastman Invocations II – 25 March

Elaine performs The Nude Voice [solo I] 

23 February 2018

John Hansard Gallery at NST City – Southampton, 19:45

SWEET TOOTH

SWEET TOOTH marks the culmination of five years’ research by Mitchener into our love of sugar and the historical links between the UK sugar industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

SWEET TOOTH has been supported with public funding from Arts Council England. Commissioned by Bluecoat in partnership with the Stuart Hall Foundation, London and The International Slavery Museum with further support from PRSF Open Fund, Edge Hill University, Centre 151 and St George’s Bloomsbury.

22 February 2018

St George’s Bloomsbury – London, 19:30

SWEET TOOTH

SWEET TOOTH marks the culmination of five years’ research by Mitchener into our love of sugar and the historical links between the UK sugar industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

SWEET TOOTH has been supported with public funding from Arts Council England. Commissioned by Bluecoat in partnership with the Stuart Hall Foundation, London and The International Slavery Museum with further support from PRSF Open Fund, Edge Hill University, Centre 151 and St George’s Bloomsbury.

12 January 2018

Kings Place – London, 19:30

Alexander Hawkins/Elaine Mitchener Quartet

‘UpRoot’ Album Launch

Alexander Hawkins/Elaine Mitchener Quartet represents the first major collaboration of two of the most distinctive voices of their generation, and stakes out a remarkable common ground from the pair’s vast range of influences and experience.

Neil Charles double bass | Stephen Davis drums | Alexander Hawkins piano, compositions | Elaine Mitchener voice