Mitchell Hutchings
Performance | Production | Education
About
"An instrument that can do anything" - Graham Johnson
American baritone and professor Mitchell Hutchings has been heard throughout the United States and abroad, from Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall to the Antonin Dvorak Museum in Prague. He is an Associate Professor of Music at Florida Atlantic University.
Recent honors include First Place in The American Prize in vocal performance and Florida Atlantic University’s 2024 Faculty Talon Leadership Award. As a producer, arranger, and conductor, he contributed to Visions of Sounds De Luxe, which earned a GRAMMY® nomination and the World Entertainment Award for Best R&B Album. His classical releases Cobalt, Jade, Amethyst ♀, and d’Arc received three Global Music Awards. He is a Voting Member of the Recording Academy®.
On stage, his roles include Marcello in La bohème, John Proctor in The Crucible, Michele in Il tabarro, the title role in Sweeney Todd, the title role in Gianni Schicchi, Escamillo in La tragédie de Carmen, Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia, Germont in La traviata, and Jud Fry in Oklahoma!. He has appeared with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, Opera Saratoga, Pensacola Opera, Charlottesville Opera, and Ensemble San Felice. Concert credits include Handel’s Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic at Our Lady of Victory Basilica, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, and performances at Carnegie Hall.
Hutchings has been a resident artist with Opera Saratoga, Des Moines Metro Opera, Pensacola Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Dicapo Opera Theatre, and Opera Maine. His students and clients have been featured in Rolling Stone, appeared on the Metropolitan Opera stage, and earned scholarships or admission to Yale, Eastman, Florida State, Peabody, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Mannes, Penn State, and Boston University, among others. He also works with commercial artists as a coach, arranger, and vocal producer.
Because of his vocal pedagogy and pathology training, he has twice assisted in identifying thyroid nodules in singers, which were later confirmed as papillary carcinoma. He continues researching voice and publishes regularly on the MH Voice Studio blog.
Mitchell is an alumnus of Florida State University and Western Carolina University. He graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2018.