25 November 2023
Radialsystem – Berlin, Germany 20:00
Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies
Elaine Mitchener mezzo-contralto; Sarah Saviet music direction; MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik
Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies
Elaine Mitchener mezzo-contralto; Sarah Saviet music direction; MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik
Repertoire
Philip Venables: A Photograph
Elaine Mitchener: the/e so/ou/nd be/t/ween (World premiere)
Laura Moody: Rilke Songs
The Hermes Experiment: [with Jethro Cooke]: Metropolis
Meredith Monk: Double Fiesta arr. Denholm
Methods and Processes
Double Recital Elaine Mitchener and Juliet Fraser
Part of Darmstadt Summer Course 2023
Elaine Mitchener, solo set and a collective work with MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik
Eight Songs for a Mad King
Elaine Mitchener mezzo-contralto; Apartment House; Anton Lukoszevieze leader
Albert M Fine (1932-1987), White On White for chamber ensemble
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016), Eight Songs for a Mad King Op. 39
Moor Mother: Jazz Codes
+Abel Selaocoe
Beam Splitter + Mariam Rezaei + Elaine Mitchener
Beam Splitter: Audrey Chen (TW/US/DE) + Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (NO/DE) Voice, Trombone, Electronics
Elaine Mitchener (UK)
Mariam Rezai (UK)
Songs for Captured Voices – Live Premiere
Laure M. Hiendl / Elaine Mitchener / KNM Berlin
Part of MaerzMusik 2023
A memento of the unspoken: The music theatre “Songs for Captured Voices” by Laure M. Hiendl, Phila Bergmann, Thea Reifler and Göksu Kunak centres around human voices that have been instrumentalised time and again throughout history and become the object of asymmetrical power negotiations.
On Being Human As Praxis
Part of MaerzMusik 2023
Five works by five composers for voice, electronics and ensemble based on the work of feminist cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter.
Mitchener / Van Huynh / Yarde / Roberts / Hiendl / Davies / Lewis / MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik
Originally commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage 2020