Elizabeth Kate

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Elizabeth Kate Hall-Keough is a cellist and vocalist, and often both at the same time, from Brooklyn, New York. Her work focuses on the contemporary classical genre, expanding and prevailing a new repertoire of music for vocalizing cellists. She aspires to be present with art being created in each passing day, actively composing and commissioning new work, both as a solo artist, and with AREPO.

As One, her most recent solo project, is a compositional and performative exploration of the bodies relationship to sound. By merging the voice with the cello, she has created a singular entity where body and instrument unite as equal partners, dissolving all boundaries and canonical expectations.

Through improvisation, vocalization, commissioning, and composing, her artistic research uses techniques to direct audience attention between the cello and voice, manipulating auditory focus to alter both the listener’s experience and perception of control.

Elizabeth has collaborated with the Munch Museum of Oslo, Eighth Blackbird, Cassandra Jenkins, Ensemble Lime, Rolf-Erik Nystrom, Hakon Thelin, Bang On A Can and Yarn/Wire. She has most recently performed her “Voice of Cello '' solo set at the Ultima Festival of Contemporary Music and the 2024 Oslo DingDong? Festival. Elizabeth has a BM and BA from Oberlin College and Conservatory and a masters from The Norwegian Academy of Music. She plays on a French 18th century Andrea Castegnari cello gifted by the Virtu Foundation for emerging artists. 

Instagram: @elizabethkatehk

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