Elizabeth Mucha
Pianist
Welcome to my website. Here you will find the usual biography, reviews, upcoming events, publicity photos, and recordings of myself as you would expect of a website bearing my name. However, as I have spent most of my professional career in various collaborations, I feel that any story about myself would be incomplete without some anecdotes and photos of some of the people whose paths have crossed my own musical travels.
‘Musical travels?’ I hear you say. ‘Of course musicians travel, what makes these special?’
What makes them special is that I’ve had the great privilege of living in six countries over the last 20 years: UK, The Netherlands, The Philippines, Singapore, Brazil and Poland. As well as experiencing the world in ways that I could never have imagined, I’ve been extremely fortunate to meet and work with some fabulously talented people who have drawn on their cultures in order to create new and exciting works of art: “Taqtaq” for flutes, piano and pre-recorded ‘suling’ track by Philippine-Chinese composer Jeffrey Ching immediately springs to mind.
As well as being fortunate to explore and perform standard vocal and chamber music repertoire, I’ve also been given opportunities to work on some very interesting projects through the years. My involvement in the 90s with the British experimental group, Opera Circus, offered me an insight into the inner workings of theatre; collaboration with Dutch-Japanese composer Sumire Nukina on her multi-media project ‘Mondriaan’ in Amsterdam opened up the idea of combining art and music; ballet dancers enacting the inner feelings of the characters in Samuel Barber’s mini-opera “A Hand of Bridge” performed by a quartet of singers and myself for Singapore Lyric Opera led me further down the route of breaking down barriers between various art forms. These are but a few of the projects which have inspired my efforts to develop multi-media recitals (Art Sung) which push the boundaries of what is considered to be a ‘concert’ by engaging with the audience through music, art and literature simultaneously.
I hope I have whetted your appetite to explore my website and to meet some of my collaborators on my musical travels.
New Developments
ART SUNG WEBSITE
Exciting news!
My Art Sung website is now up and running. For many years I have had a passion for creating themed programmes which then extended to linking music, and especially Lieder, to Art. It started very simply: a song and an image with a few words of explanation. Gradually the need to tell stories grew and it became apparent that some form of narrative was needed to give the recital a structure. We then discovered that we could get creative with the artwork and we are exploring ever more exciting ways to present the fusion of Music, Art and Narrative which is Art Sung.
To find out more, I welcome you to visit the Art Sung website to read about our upcoming performances and projects and the many talented people who make up the Art Sung team.
Rio Piano Trio is on tour, October, ‘25!
Inspired by Brazilian music and especially the classical works of Heitor Villa Lobos, the young talented cellist David Chew was appointed principal cellist with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra in 1981. In 1994 he founded the Rio Cello festival with the goal to make classical music accessible to as many people as possible. It was at this fantastic annual event in 2006 where I met and first started performing with violinist David Johnson who has had a distinguished career with the Gürzenich orchestra in Cologne. The two Davids grew up together making music in and around Hull before embarking on their individual paths.
Several years on we have formed the Rio Piano Trio, and our goal is to share the rich and exciting world of Latin American classical music with audiences outside of Brazil.
For more information about when, where, and what we are playing please visit the events page. We hope to see you at one of our concerts!