23 March 2023

Radialsystem – Berlin, Germany 20:00

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.

19 March 2023

Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Main Stage – Berlin, Germany 20:00

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

25 February 2023

daadgalerie  – Berlin, Germany 19:00

Common Ground: Jay Bernard and Elaine Mitchener

This event brings into dialogue poet and artist Jay Bernard and vocalist and composer Elaine Mitchener.
Presented by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD

Followed by a DJ Set by Robert Machiri
In cooperation with Das Wetter – Zeitschrift für Text und Musik

23 February 2023

St John’s Smith Square – London 19:00

New Beginnings

b r e a d t h b r e a t h by Mitchener alongside works by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Atefeh Einali, Simon Knighton, Emily Abdy, Elischa Kaminer, Alex Paxton, Julius Eastman

Performed by Southbank Sinfonia
Conductor Toby Thatcher

22 January 2023

Wigmore Hall, London 19:30

The Rolling Calf

with Elaine Mitchener (vocals), Neil Charles (double bass), Jason Yarde (saxophone), Pat Thomas (piano, electronics)

20 November 2022

sogar theater – Zürich, Switzerland 17:00

Solo Throat Slashed

Part of unerhört! 2022 – Jazzfestival Zürich & Winterthur