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Elaine Mitchener is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation and visual art.
She is currently a Wigmore Hall Associate Artist, also an Artist Associate with ENSEMBLE KLANG and a NEEDCompany Fellow. Elaine was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow (2022), an exhibiting artist in the British Art Show 9 (2021-22) and in 2020 a selected artist for the Rauschenberg Residency.
In February 2022 Mitchener was awarded an MBE for Services to Music. Her debut album SOLO THROAT was released in May 2024 under Café Oto’s OTORUKO label.
As a guest curator Elaine developed and presented Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery’s Deep Time Festival (Basquiat&Cage 8424) and Politics of the Voice for Courtisane Festival (Ghent, Belgium).
Composers and artists she has worked and collaborated with include: George E Lewis, Jennifer Walshe, Tansy Davies, Rolf Hind, Laure M Hiendl, Matana Roberts; visual artists Sonia Boyce, Christian Marclay and The Otolith Group; chamber ensembles Apartment House, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble MAM, Ensemble Klang, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble and Klangforum Wien; choreographer Dam Van Huynh and experimental musicians such as Moor Mother, Joelle Leandre, Saul Williams, Pat Thomas and David Toop. Elaine is founder of the collective electroacoustic unit The Rolling Calf.
Loré Lixenberg is a British mezzo-soprano, active in contemporary and experimental music. She studied composition with Andy Vores, Robert Saxton and John Woolrich and attended masterclasses with Peter Maxwell Davies. She studied voice with Nicole Tibbels, David Mason, Elisabeth Soderstrom, Galina Vishnevskaya and Martin Isepp. Her experiments in voice extend to physical artworks, direction, and voice/theatre compositions that encompass film/physical theatre/new technologies and the theatre of objects.
Having gone on to study singing with Powell, Mason, Isepp and Vishnevskaya she went on to apply bel canto singing to physical theatre, comedy and free improv, working with Simon Munnery, Richard Thomas, Stewart Lee, Complicite & Simon Mcburney . She has since performed internationally on concert platforms and galleries, opera houses, in operas and in new installations and vocal performances with experimental visual and sound artists like Stelarc, Bruce Mclean, ORLAN and David Toop.Performed the works of composers such as Aperghis, Burrell, Beat, Howard, Baukholt, Sörensen, Oehring, Osborn, Turnage,Ligeti,Stockhausen,Furrer, Birtwistle, Earle Brown, Ferrari, Barry, Oliveros, Acquaviva, Niblock, Dufour, Fujikura, Hind, Rønsholdt, Johnson, Power among others, performing with many ensembles in contemporary music festivals worldwide premiering hundreds of new works. She has made numerous experimental opera series for BBC2 and Channel 4 such as ‘The Kombat Operas’ and ‘Attention Scum’, and Strings Bows and Bellows.
[text taken from Wikipedia and lorelixenberg.art]
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