Dr. Andrew Mitchell

Associate Professor
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Dr. Andrew Mitchell

Associate Professor

Dana School of Music & University Theatre

amitchell02@ysu.edu

Bio

Trombonist Andrew Mitchell has appeared as a soloist and clinician throughout the United States and Europe. He is Associate Professor of Music at Youngstown State University, and a member of Spectrum Brass and the Canton Symphony Orchestra. In demand as an orchestral and chamber musician, Mitchell has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, the Detroit Opera Orchestra, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Motor City Brass Quintet, CityMusic Cleveland, and the orchestras of Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Toledo, Tallahassee, Ann Arbor, Flint, Akron, Lansing, Erie, and Youngstown. He previously held positions in the Sinfonia Gulf Coast, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Midland Symphony Orchestra, and the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra. Appearances as a soloist and/or clinician have included the Big 12 Trombone Conference, the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Brno, Czech Republic), the Kroměříž Conservatory (Kroměříž, Czech Republic), the Jan Deyl Conservatory (Prague, Czech Republic), the Prague Conservatory, the University of Michigan, Western Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, the University of Southern Mississippi, Texas Tech University, Oberlin Conservatory, the W.D. Packard Concert Band, and numerous engagements with the Youngstown State University Wind Ensemble. Mitchell has also performed at the International Trombone Festival as a member of the William Cramer Memorial Trombone Choir. Summers, he is an Artist-in-Residence at the Bay View Music Festival. Mitchell earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan. He was previously Assistant Professor of Trombone at Ball State University.