Associate maker Steven Mackey

Steven Mackey is a GRAMMY-winning composer of works for chamber ensemble, orchestra, dance, and opera—commissioned by the greatest orchestras around the world. Mackey’s music is brightly coloured, ecstatically inventive, lively and profound. Also an electric guitarist, Mackey’s music weaves improvisatory riffs into large-scale works of grooving, dramatic coherence.

In May 2024, Ensemble Klang will perform a new work called The Girl With No Hands, that brings together music and story for Ensemble Klang and an actor. The music embraces and enhances the occasional magic and whimsical discontinuity present in these fairy tales. And while the story is one of the darker tales from the brothers Grimm there is a happy ending!