When Mick Kinney’s wry humor and exquisite piano playing meet Elise Witt’s chameleon voice and world music repertoire, just such an unlikely but perfect musical event is created. With songs from the sublimely romantic to the superbly ridiculous, Elise and Mick complement each other’s compositions, singing soulful harmonies and engaging the audience with their hilarious antics.
In music, a tuning fork is a classic vibratory instrument providing true pitch, used as a guide to all other tonal relationships. In life, it is Elise Witt.
Born in Switzerland to survivors of Nazi Germany, raised in North Carolina, Elise makes her home in Atlanta, Georgia. Speaking fluent Italian, French, German, Spanish, and English and singing in more than a dozen languages, Elise’s passion for music and language has carried her around the nation and across the seas. “My work and my life are all about sound,” says the multi-instrumentalist and longtime member of the Children’s Music Network.
Rhiannon is a vocal artist with a vision of music as a vehicle for innovation, healing, transformation, and social change. I have been blessed with the opportunity to study intensively with Rhiannon beginning in 2006. In 2008 I became part of the first All the Way In, a year-long training in the powerful body-based vocal improvisation and sound healing process that Rhiannon has developed in her 30+ years of teaching.
with Carol Burch Brown, Ann Kilkelly, Celeste Miller and Elise Witt. Featuring the performance soundtrack for the Salt Marsh Suite with Elise Witt, the Taubman Museum’s brochure and exhibition review.
“Singing Darwin” will be an orchestrated convergence of electro-acoustic and vocal music, Web 2.0 collaborative networks, readings, imagery based in Darwin’s primary sources, and live performances at participating science, art, theater, and library venues.