Original Work
(Upcoming) 2026 Mikaela Elson second solo EP, untitled, Arroyo Grande, CA, Portalis Studios, Produced by Guillermo E. Brown
(Upcoming) 2025 noworriesLMK full-length album recording with Mikaela Elson, Kevin Madison, Wes Nelson, and Lucas Lenique, Arroyo Grande, CA, Portalis Studios, Produced by Guillermo E. Brown
2024 Trying for you composed by noworriesLMK with Mikaela Elson, Kevin Madison, Wes Nelson, and Lucas Lenique, produced and mixed by Spencer Hartling, Mastered by Corbin Clarke, Wiggle World & Private residence in Mount Washington, Alta Dena, CA, vocalist and composer
2024 Hurricane composed by noworriesLMK with Mikaela Elson, Kevin Madison, Wes Nelson, and Lucas Lenique, produced and mixed by Spencer Hartling, Mastered by Corbin Clarke, Wiggle World & Private residence in Mount Washington, Alta Dena, CA, vocalist and composer
2022 I’m Okay solo EP by Mikaela Elson with collaborators Paul Cornish, Quentin Purviance, Lenard Simpson, and Keith Karman.
Featured songs:
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Last Time
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Is It Clear Now
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IICN Interlude
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I’m Okay
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I’ll Be Okay Interlude
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I Could’ve Loved You
New Body video and sound installation by Mikaela Elson and Kevin Madison on keyboard. 2022. ○ Video, editing, soundscape, and vocals by Mikaela Elson
- Filmed in New York City, Marseille, France, New Jersey, and Los Angeles.
- Featured in a week-long installation at California Institute of the Arts, Wave Cave, September 18-24, 2022.
Quioxically Unsound live sound and voice by Mikaela Elson, choreography and visuals by Megan Fowler-Hurst and Mads Irving. 2022. ○ Performed at The Arc in Pasadena, CA, 2022
Building by Mikaela Elson and Gabe Le Nevue. 2022. ○ Original hyper-pop song written with classmate Gabe Le Nevue
Strawberry Mountain by Mikaela Elson. 2022.
Heart Beats of Pain by Mikaela Elson. 2013
Background Singing:
2025 Vinson Presents: Good Company with The Koreatown Oddity, Vinson, and Enjonu, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA, Scribble, background singer
2024 Jazz is Dead: The Mizell Brothers, by Alfonso and Larry Mizell, presented by Jazz is Dead, Ford Theater, Los Angeles, CA, Soloist & background vocals
2023 Kayla Starr Watson, Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, Background vocalist
2022 Gemma Castro Choir (June 2022), Julius Smack’s Leaving Records Release Show at Zebulon Cafe in Los Angeles, CA, soprano 2
2021 Something with Soul Album Release by Malachi Witson, apart of Just Jazz Series at 2220 Arts in Los Angeles, CA Solo:
2026 OpenGate Music Series, Scribble Community, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA, solo performance with full band featuring Steve Blum, Wes Nelson, and David Otis
2026 Bedcrumb Show Presents, Digital Debris, Los Angeles, CA duo performance of songs written by Mikaela Elson and takoda, piano, voice, and sampling with guitarist
2024 Speakeasy Extravaganza, Rosanna Gamson WorldWide (RGWW), Los Angeles, CA, soloist piano and voice of original music
2023 Moving Images are Still Images presented by
2021 San Diego Ballet Company Donor Event, soloist
Recording with Collaborators:
2024 Jazz is Dead, Linear Labs Studio, Los Angeles, CA, background vocalist - session singing
- Ebo Taylo
- Adrian Younge
2024 Louis Cole Choir composed by Louis Cole directed by Genevieve Artadi, Los Angeles, CA, Soprano 2 and Alto 1
- First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
- Hollywood Scoring
2024 Something With Soul 2 composed by Malachi Whitson, UCLA recording studio, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Conference of the Birds composed by Fahad Siadat translation of sufi text by Sholeh Wolpé, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Soprano
2023 The Golden Age by WIRES featured on ‘The Golden Age’ and ‘Phobos Y Deimos’, Los Angeles, CA, featured vocalist for album
2022 Call To Arms composition by Sharon Chohi Kim, EPOCH Virtual Exhibition by Elana Mann, Los Angeles, CA, vocalist
2022 Fantasma Del Soler by Sin Ti, Orange County, CA, vocalist and background singing 2022 Wires album, Los Angeles, CA, vocalist and background singing
2022 David Bowie’s ‘Under Pressure’ by Contemporary Repertory Ensemble, CalArts Studio in Santa Clarita, CA, soprano in chamber choir
2021 My Country by Baby From The Forest, Los Angeles, CA, featured vocalist
2021 Somewhere by Black Market The Band, vocalist and collaborator, Los Angeles, CA 2021
2019 KNOWER FOREVER band recording, soprano 1 in choir for album, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Galaxias by Bastidas!, Orange County, CA, background vocals
Performances:
2025 Desert Daze Presents LA: noworriesLMK, takoda, and Steve Blum, Venice, CA, original band music by Mikaela Elson, band members include Kevin Madison, Lucas Lenique, and Wes Nelson
2025 Dakota Higgins Art Show Closing, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA, original songs and synth performance by Mikaela Elson solo
2025 Farmhouse Collective Presents: Elijah Fox with noworriesLMK, Riverside, CA, Farmhouse Collective, opening band noworriesLMK with compositions by Mikaela Elson
2025 Vaudeville Speakeasy Extravaganza, Los Angeles, CA, private residence, presented by RGWW (Rosanna Gamson/World Wide), solo performer with piano of original music
2025 OpenGate Series Presents: noworriesLMK and Vinny Goglia Ensemble, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA, performer with band noworriesLMK with compositions by Mikaela Elson
2025 noworriesLMK & Guillermo E. Brown, Los Angeles, CA, Zebulon, performer with band noworriesLMK with compositions by Mikaela Elson
2024 noworriesLMK, Guillermo E. Brown, Inch of Sketch, Los Angeles, CA, NonPlus Ultra, performer with band noworriesLMK with compositions by Mikaela Elson
2024 Mikaela Elson and haana lee, Los Angeles, CA, Solarc, duo improve with electronics, voice, and organ
Operas:
2025 MARATHON Greek Comic Opera, composer and libretto by Peter Hager, presented by Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA, character Apollo & Soprano
2024 The Comet/Poppea concept & direction by Yuval Sharon, composition by George Lewis & Claudio Monteverdi, libretto by Douglas Kearney & Giovanni Francesco Busenello, presented by MOCA & The Industry, Los Angeles, CA, Ottone/Virtue - Mezzo Soprano
2023 Star Choir by Malik Gaines and libretto by Alexandro Senegade, Industry Opera Company, Los Angeles, CA, Imani - Soprano
2023 Hecuba by Will Salmon, Open Gate Theater, Pasadena, CA, Soprano - Hecuba’s servant
2023 Here Be The Sirens by Katie Soper, California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, CA, Soprano - Peitho
2022 Partial Memories microtonal opera by Judith Berkson (June 2022), New Opera Days Ostrava Festival at Antonin Dvorak Theater in Ostrava, Czech Republic, soprano 1
2023 Hope Is A Hammer collaboration by Sharon Chohi Kim and Elana Man, Human Resources LA in Los Angeles, CA, Soprano
2022 Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater, ICALA & The Industry Co-production, Los Angeles, CA, Mezzo Soprano in trio
2022 Long Beach Opera: On Display (July 2022), performer with horn sculptures by Elana Mann, Long Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, CA, Soprano
2022 Star Choir Workshop opera by Malik Gaines, libretto by Alexandro Senegade, The Industry Opera Company at Stomping Ground in Los Angeles, CA, alto as Jing
Collaborations:
(Upcoming) 2026 Baroque Collegium LA Meditations, St. Augustine by-the-sea, Santa Monica, CA, Soprano
(Upcoming) 2026 Performance part of Radical Kinship Exhibition by Sharon Chohi Kim, Feminist Center For Creative Work (FCCW), Los Angeles, CA, performing artist
2026 Preview Performance part of Radical Kinship Exhibition by Sharon Chohi Kim, Feminist Center For Creative Work (FCCW), Los Angeles, CA, performing artist
2026 The Industry Lab Presents: Guillermo E. Brown and Carmina Escobar, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Downtown Los Angeles, CA, performer in Guillermo E. Brown’s piece
2026 Whirlwinds, Tornadoes, Basement by Sharon Chohi Kim & Elana Mann, Wende Museum, Los Angeles, CA, performing artist
2025 Living Earth Presents: Kathryn Shuman & Friends, Los Angeles, CA, Performer
2025 Guillermo E. Brown: Artist Studios, Park Ave Armory, New York City, New York, presented by Doris Duke Foundation, Creative Capital, and MapFund, project assistant and manager
2025 Mikaela Elson, haana lee, Angel Lin, Los Angeles, CA, Solarc, improvising and singing
2025 Ex Pression 4 by Dean Liao, Los Angeles, CA, Oracle Egg, improviser and singer
2025 Alex Grant Ensemble, Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA, The Green Room, improviser and singer with electronics
2024 Fiber composition by Sharon Chohi Kim, MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) Geffen Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA, Soprano & improviser in quartet
2024 Wayne Horvitz Electric Circus by Wayne Horvitz, presented by Angel City Jazz Festival, REDCAT at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, Vocalist and improviser in large conduction ensemble
2024 Quioxically Unsound 2 by Mikaela Elson and Megan Fowler-Hurst, Coaxial, Los Angeles, CA, Vocalist, vocal processing
2024 Voices on the Hill by Guillermo E. Brown, Elephant Hill, Synchromy Music, Los Angeles, CA, Vocalist & soloist in small ensemble
2024 In Their Own Image by Andrea Soto, homeLA, Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA, Vocalist, soloist, and improviser
2023 Ritual of Mundanity composed by Jeonghyeon Joo, Golden Thread Concert Series, presented by Resonance Collective, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, CA, Vocalist and improviser
2023 Something with Soul by Malachi Whitson, Los Angeles, CA, Sams First, vocalist and improviser
2023 18th Street Arts Presents: Malachi Whitson, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA, The World Stage, vocalist and improviser
2022 Unstuckness composition by Sharon Chohi Kim, Open Gate Theater in Los Angeles, CA, soprano
2021 Unstuckness composed by Sharon Chohi Kim, Bio-Soul Chamber Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Choral:
2025 Baroque Collegium LA: Bach & Messiah, at St. Augustine’s by the Sea, Santa Monica, CA, Soprano
2025 Baroque Collegium LA: Bachtet, at St. Augustine’s by the Sea, Santa Monica, CA, Soprano
2024 Louis Cole Choir composed by Louis Cole, directed by Genevieve Artadi, presented by Minaret Records, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Soprano 2
2024 In Waves by Kion Heidari, Hear Now Festival, Hex Ensemble, 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, CA, Soprano 2
2023 Waterways & Dwellings composed by Molly Pease poetry by Molly Bendall, presented by Synchromy, Culver City Masonic Lodge, Los Angeles, CA, Soloist and Soprano in quartet
2023 Conference of the Birds composed by Fahad Siadat translation of sufi text by Sholeh Wolpé, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Soprano
2023 Orpheus composed by Elliot Menard, Kulak's Woodshed, Los Angeles, CA, Soprano
2019 Eric Whitacre NAMM Show composed by Eric Whitacre performed “Fly to Paradise” and “Cloudburst” live at The NAMM Foundation Grand Rally for Music Education, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, Soprano 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ABpkC6Vr7A&t=369s
2011 Eric Whitacre Ted Talk composed by Eric Whitacre, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, CA, Soprano 1 in live choir
2009 Star Wars: In Concert composed by John Williams narrated by Anthony Daniels conducted by Dirk Brossé of Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Honda Center, Anaheim, CA
Choral Groups:
2025-present Baroque Collegium LA
2023-2024 Hex Vocal Ensemble, Soprano
2024 Louis Cole Choir, Soprano 2 & Alto 1 or 2
2022 Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Soprano 1 & 2
2021 KNOWER Choir, Soprano 1
2014-2016 San Diego Pro Arte Voice, Soprano 1 & 2
2009-2013 Temecula Valley Master Chorale, Soprano 1
2009-2013 Riverside City College Chamber Singers, Soprano 1