vocalist • performer • composer
Contemporary Vocal Art
Experimental use of the voice within the realms of new music, focused on the spiritual and experiential elements of sound. Collaborations with composers for world premieres, avant-garde, multimedia and cross-over projects, solo and chamber music between silence and screeching.
Early Music
Medieval and Early Baroque music inspired by Western rituals, mysticism and ancient traditions. Artistic director of Sibil•la Ensemble.
“Kristia Michael is a vocal artist who navigates between piety and the raw Mediterranean. Subtle are the guttural arabesques with which she adorns the music.”
Guido van Oorschot, de Volkskrant
UPCOMING
Whispers of the Sibyls
with Sibil•la Ensemble
3 October — Schiermonnikoog Festival, Schiermonnikoog
Myēsis & Bluets
solo set & duet with Pandelis Diamantides
4 October — Uncloud, Utrecht
La Recta Musica
Premieres by Cornelis de Bondt
with Kali Ensemble
17 October — Orgelpark, Amsterdam
Five Paths
Premiere by Michalis Paraskakis
with ΤΕΤΤΤΙX
25 October — Greek National Opera, Athens
A hundred years of Feldman: Three Voices and Kristia Michael
29 November — Musica in Prossimità, Pinerolo
Anabiosis
with Sibil•la Ensemble
3 December — Ostium Medieval Music Days, Athens
Morton Feldman: Three Voices
6 December — Sound or Not, The Hague
22 January 2027 — Dancing May with Sibil•la Ensemble at Concert in Tienhoven, Tienhoven
31 January 2027 — Giacinto Scelsi: The Messenger with Nieuw Amsterdams Peil at Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
5-7 February 2027 — Ekhos in Echonance Festival, Amsterdam
25 February-4 March — Psychanodia with Miriam Encinas Laffitte, Tuce Alba and Efrén López at La Marfà, Girona
13 March 2027 — Ecological Sonic Memories with Ekhos Trio at Splendor, Amsterdam
14 March 2027 — Giacinto Scelsi: The Messenger with Nieuw Amsterdams Peil at Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen
20 March 2027 — Whispers of the Sibyls with Sibil•la Ensemble at Musica Antica, The Hague
8 May 2027 — Lingua Ignota by Yannis Kyriakides with Maze Ensemble at Dag in de Branding, The Hague
May 2027 — Premiere by Ioannis Panagiotou at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp, Antwerp
4 September 2027 — Dancing May with Sibil•la Ensemble at Radviliada Festival, Lithuania
17 October 2027 — Whispers of the Sibyls with Sibil•la Ensemble at Westerkerk, Enkhuizen
23 October 2027 — Euridice premiere by Claudio Jacomucci at Orgelpark, Amsterdam
30 April 2028 — Whispers of the Sibyls with Sibil•la Ensemble at Fonte Vivace, Aachen
Jacopo Peri (1561 – 1633): Tu dormi, e’l dolce sonno
A soft mourn for those who sleep and forget / forget the idea that humanity is a big family on Earth…
Performed with Alex Mastichiadis.
Filmed by Georgia Mantalia and Dimitris Papadopoulos, edited by Kristia Michael and Georgia Mantalia, mixing and mastering by Ilias Pantelias.
Aspasia Nasopoulou: Plenitude
Plenitude draws inspiration from the Rubaiyat poems of the Persian mathematician and philosopher Omar Khayyám (1048–1131). The Arabic verses reflect how true prosperity is in the simplicity of existence, in silence, and in communion with the world around us.
Performed with Sibil•la Ensemble.
Filmed by Dimitris Papadopoulos.
