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
Amata Femina
Elikωn Ensemble
5 September — Musica ad confluentem, České Budějovice
ANABIOSIS: Medieval and Traditional Music of Cyprus
11 September — with Sibil•la Ensemble at Medieval Music at the Dales, Yorkshire Dales
Sibil•la, Idrîsî Ensemble & Wandering Piper
12 September — Medieval Music at the Dales, Yorkshire Dales
Ileana Melita in Milaan
with Nieuw Amsterdams Peil, Heleen Hulst, Gerard Bouwhuis
16 September — Muze van Zuid, Amsterdam
Whispers of the Sibyls
with Sibil•la Ensemble
18 September — Muze van Zuid, Amsterdam
Among Echoes
with Alex Mastichiadis
19 September — Muze van Zuid, Amsterdam
Premiere by Danya Pilchen
with Kali Ensemble
26 September — Orgelpark, Amsterdam
3 October — Whispers of the Sibyls by Sibil•la Ensemble in Schiermonnikoog Festival, Schiermonnikoog
4 October — Whispers of the Myēsis & Bluets with Pandelis Diamantides in Uncloud, Utrecht
17 October 2026 — Premieres by Cornelis de Bondt with Kali Ensemble in Orgelpark, Amsterdam
25 October 2026 — jijiji with Ensemble TETTIΞ, at the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera, Athens
24 November 2026 — Stravaganza with Alex Mastichiadis and Nikos Veliotis, at the Greek National Opera, Athens
28 November 2026 — Morton Feldman: Three Voices in Musica in Prossimitá, Pinerollo
30 November – 4 December 2026 — Residency with Sibil•la Ensemble at Athens Conservatory, Athens
4 December 2026 — Anabiosis with Sibil•la Ensemble at Ostium, Athens
6 December 2026 — Morton Feldman: Three Voices at Modelo62 Festival, 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
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.
Kristia Michael 