Wysing Arts Centre – Cambridge, 13:00

Charles-Mitchener at Wysing Arts Music Festival

Cafe Oto – London, 19:30

Moor Mother / Pat Thomas / Elaine Mitchener (Trio)

Moor Mother / Pat Thomas (Duo)

Printworks – London, 19:30

Tansy Davies / Nick Drake: CAVE (world premiere)

In the cavernous warehouse space of The Printworks, this new music theatre work follows a grieving man’s quest for survival in a devastated world.

Tansy Davies composer
Nick Drake libretto
Mark Padmore tenor
Elaine Mitchener contralto
Lucy Bailey director
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
London Sinfonietta

Produced by the London Sinfonietta in association with the Royal Opera

Turner Contemporary, Margate – UK, 12-6pm

Part of Oscillate Festival

A one day programme of music and sound as part of the Animals & Us exhibition, also featuring Leafcutter John & Dromloch, Evan Parker’s Trance Map, Nic Collins and others.

Museum of London Docklands, 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, Museum of London, Edge Hill University, Centre 151 and St George’s Bloomsbury.

Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham – UK, 16:15

Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet

Cafe Oto, London, 7.30pm

Part of Alexander Hawkins Cafe Oto Residency

Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet

Sonorities Festival, Belfast – UK, 8pm

Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet

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.