Dr. MITCHELL HUTCHINGS
Dr. Mitchell Hutchings
DMA, Eastman School of Music
MM, Florida State University
BM, Western Carolina University
Associate Professor of Voice
Areas of Expertise:
Voice Performance and Literature
Opera
Vocal Pedagogy
Email: mhutchings@fau.edu
Office Phone:561-297-4065
Office: AL 251
Dr. Mitchell Hutchings, baritone, has earned distinction as a soloist throughout the United States and internationally. He has performed with companies such as Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, Opera Saratoga, Pensacola Opera, Charlottesville Opera, and Ensemble San Felice, among others. As a Voting Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences®, Dr. Hutchings contributed as a producer to the classical albums Cobalt, Jade, Amethyst ♀, and d’Arc, which earned three Global Music Awards for Outstanding Achievement. He was also a vocal producer, conductor, and arranger on Chris Redding’s Grammy®-nominated album Visions of Sounds De Luxe. Recently, he was part of the OPERA America Innovation Grant-winning team for San Diego Opera’s Opera Hack 3.0, focusing on technology integration in opera. Additionally, he was involved in the Music Theatre and New Technologies (MTNT) project, a groundbreaking initiative funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and the European Union, which secured over €5 million in collaboration with several European and American universities and conservatories to advance opera studies and performance through technological innovation.
Dr. Hutchings has been featured for his work as a vocal pedagogue in CS Music (Classical Singer online), Schmopera, and Modern Singer. In addition, he participated in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program, held at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018. He has been a guest artist clinician with Opera Orlando, MusicFor International at L’Ateneo Internazionale della Lirica di Sulmona (Italy), and Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (Mexico). Dr. Hutchings is the current President of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Florida Gold Coast Chapter. He also serves as Artistic Director of FAU Opera Theatre and Program Faculty Leader and Founder of FAU Opera in Italy. In 2024, he received the Florida Atlantic University Faculty Talon Leadership Award, given annually to one faculty member for exceptional leadership, commitment, and service to the university.
Applied voice students from Mitchell Hutchings’ studio have performed with Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera (Grounded workshop), the National Symphony Orchestra, Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Palm Beach Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Pittsburgh Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Seagle Music Colony, Ohio Light Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Pensacola Opera, Oberlin in Italy, Finger Lakes Opera, the Accademia Vocale Lorenzo Malfatti in Lucca, Italy, the Russian Opera Workshop, and others. Many of the same students have also won prizes at the National Association of Teachers of Singing student auditions and the Premiere Opera International Vocal Competition. In addition, they have competed in the district, regional, and national semi-final rounds of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Former applied voice students have been offered acceptance with scholarship offers at Yale University, Florida State University, Mannes School of Music, Eastman School of Music, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Boston University, Stony Brook University, University of Arizona, Penn State University, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He also had a former student participate in the Joyce DiDonato Master Class series at Carnegie Hall in 2016. Commercial artists who have collaborated with Dr. Hutchings have received high acclaim, toured internationally, reached as high as #2 on the iTunes Worldwide album charts, and been featured in Rolling Stone.
Performance highlights include the title role in Gianni Schicchi, John Proctor in The Crucible, Michele in Il tabarro, Marcello and Schaunard in La bohème, Escamillo in La tragédie de Carmen, Ben in The Telephone, Father in Ragtime, and he was “exemplary” (Sylva Herald) in the title role in Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, under the direction of Terrence Mann, where “his range and presence commanded attention any time he was on stage.” Dr. Hutchings received training as a young artist with Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera Saratoga, Pensacola Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Opera Maine, and Dicapo Opera Theatre.
Concert credits include Handel’s Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Our Lady of Victory Basilica, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Rochester Oratorio Society, Mozart Requiem and Beethoven Choral Fantasy with the National Sacred Honor Choir in Carnegie Hall, and the Beethoven Mass in C with the Tallahassee Community Chorus.
Mitchell Hutchings holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Western Carolina University (Young Alumnus Award), a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Florida State University (Thirty Under 30 Distinguished Young Alumni), and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance and Literature (voice) from the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. He makes his home in South Florida with his spouse, composer Dr. Sarah Hutchings.
Personal website: www.mitchellhutchings.com