Dr. Aundrey Mitchell, Executive Director, viola/violin
Dr. Aundrey Mitchell, a classically trained professional musician and educator, is passionate about music and teaching and has over 25 years of experience teaching music to students of all ages, levels, and backgrounds. Equally accomplished as a performer, Aundrey has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player performing at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Broadway, Bargemusic, Kimmel Center, National Gallery of Art, Mariinsky Theater, and Tchaikovsky Hall. She has given recitals in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, US Virgin Islands, France, and Italy and has toured South America, Mexico, Serbia, and Russia with the Philadelphia Virtuosi.
Aundrey has been a teaching artist in New York City programs sponsored by Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Young Audiences, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. She regularly coaches young professionals and adult amateur chamber music groups and teaches Senior Session and the Adult Chamber Music Workshop at The Kinhaven Music School in Vermont during the summer.
Her work with older adults in New York City as a SU-CASA 2020 Artist in Residence inspired and helped to motivate her with ideas for creating year-long ongoing creative aging music programs for older adults in NYC. The 2020 pandemic shutdown brought an even greater awareness that adult learners were also a part of this community. Bringing together this community and New York City area musicians was not only a goal, but a much-needed necessity.
Until 2020, Dr. Mitchell was adjunct assistant professor of music at City University of New York (CUNY), The College of New Jersey, and Moravian College. Aundrey earned degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and Rutgers University studying with Michael Tree, Karen Ritscher, and Lucien Joel.