Lore Lixenberg

Lore Lixenberg is an exponent of voice-art active in contemporary and experimental music.

She studied composition with Andy Vores, Robert Saxton and John Woolrich attending masterclasses with Peter Maxwell Davies, also 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.

Lixenberg co-directs La Plaque Tournante experimental artspace with composer Frédéric Acquaviva in Berlin As a classically trained mezzo-soprano she has worked and performed the music of Georges Aperghis, Helmut Oerhing, Frédéric Acquaviva, György Ligeti, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Earle Brown, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Harrison Birtwistle, Beat Furrer, Maurice Lemaître, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jocelyn Pook, Peter Maxwell Davies, György Kurtag, Denis Dufour, Bernard Heidsieck or Trevor Wishart as well as interpreted the works of Luciano Berio, Isidore Isou, Nam June Paik, Gil J Wolman, Luigi Nono, Salvadore Sciarrino, Conlon Nancarrow, Cathy Berberian or John Cage, which she is the first to perform in Bayreuth and also to record the "Complete Songbooks" for the CD label SubRosa in 2012. She also collaborates with experimental artists STELARC, Bruce Mclean, David Toop, Joan Key and works closely with the younger generation of composers Dai Fujikura, Laurence Osborn, Niels Ronsholdt. She also works with Neil Luck, Federico Reuben and Adam de la Cour and the musicians co-operative Squib-Box as well as with Apartment House.

Loré Lixenberg gave over 1000 performances all around the globe, from Royal Opera, Covent Garden to the most underground venues and has performed with ensembles such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Wien Modern, BCMG, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philarmony, Tokyo Philarmonic, Suntory Hall, Tokyo...

She was active in the 1990s as a singer, actor, writer and comedian with Simon Munnery and Stewart Lee's Cluub Zarathustra and contributed to the BBC2 series Attention Scum.Cluub Zarathustra Created with composer Richard Thomas the BBC2TV comedy opera series 'The Kombat Opera's'. She appeared in and helped develop Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee's musical, 'Jerry Springer the Opera' at Battersea Arts Centre, Edinburgh Festival, National Theatre and The Cambridge Theatre on London's West End. Lixenberg appeared in 'Out of a House walked a Man' at the NT and 'Miss Donnithorne's Maggot' with Complicite. Currently resident director with Danish ensemble SCENATET she directed the UK premiere of 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.

• PRET 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