Press

Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2026

Tony Benjamin

“Witnessing their brilliant collective creativity was a heart-warming privilege that will resound long after the festival’s finale.”

Elaine Mitchener and The Power Of Four at Cheltenham Jazz Festival

Tony Dudley Evans

“My work with the Power of Four fits in perfectly with all my other work as I see them as interconnected – it’s still ensemble playing but with different repertoire and ‘feel’, but the openness to mining ideas remains the same.”

Graffiti Bodies XV by Dam Van Huynh, Elaine Mitchener & Michael Picknett

Qiao Lin Tan

In a world where it feels like injustice and oppression repeats itself in different guises with every news story and social media post, Graffiti Bodies XV reminds us that amongst the multiple layers of shittery, there are always layers upon layers of hope, justice and community to look for as well.

Graffiti Bodies XV: A Requiem for the Wrongfully Erased

Kevin Le Gendre

Graffiti Bodies XV is more of a death disco, a thought-provoking if not utterly disquieting commentary on the long history of police brutality in the black Diaspora.

Elaine Mitchener redefines what singing means in virtuoso tour-de-force

Flora Willson

★★★★★

The vocalist travels the full spectrum of the human voice, from subdued sounds of mouth and breath to an exhilarating remix of her own hyper-exuberant electronic soundscape

Elaine Mitchener about Working, Composing, and Improvising with her Voice

Ahead of a new Barbican premiere, the experimental vocalist speaks about her practise, disrupting semantic sense and her love for how people say the things they say.

Deep Time: Basquiat & Cage 8424
Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, UK

Claire Sawers

“Bold curating now about bold curating then, Deep Time runs deep and feels vital with satisfying, intermingling art forms.”