Loré Lixenberg

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Lixenberg in 2014

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.[clarification needed What's that? Puppetry?]

Lixenberg co-directs the experimental artspace La Plaque Tournante with composer Frédéric Acquaviva in Berlin.[1] As a classically trained

Apartment House
.

Lixenberg gave over 1000 performances all around the globe, from

Tokyo Philharmonic, Suntory Hall
, Tokyo.

She was active in the 1990s as a singer, actor, writer and comedian with

Complicite. Currently resident director with Danish ensemble Scenatet,[5] she directed the UK premiere of Mauricio Kagel
's Staatstheater.

Her book Memory Maps (preface by David Toop) is in the collection of artists books held at Bibliothèque Kandinsky / Centre Pompidou, Paris, as well as her sound artwork Bird / Transformation section. Her first artwork CD The Afternoon of a phone is published by £@B in 2014 has been shown recently at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.

In the 2019 United Kingdom general election she stood as an independent candidate in Hackney North and Stoke Newington, finishing last with 76 votes (0.1%).[6][7]

Voice works

  • Prêt a chanter (2015) – a realtime opera
  • Adipose – A Cautionary Tale (2013) – a live art opera
  • Panic Room – The Singterviews (2012) – a realtime opera
  • Bird (2010) – an avian opera
  • Lethe (2008) – a grief opera
  • The Little Christmas Tree (2006) – an installation opera

References

  1. ^ "La Plaque Tournante". La Plaque Tournante. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  2. ^ Loré Lixenberg, Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin
  3. ^ "squib-box". squib-box. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
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  5. ^ "Scenatet › Ensemble for Art and Music". Scenatet.
  6. ^ "All of Hackney's general election candidates and their policies – in one place". Hackney Citizen. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  7. ^ "Hackney North & Stoke Newington Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

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