Dr. MITCHELL HUTCHINGS
Dr. Mitchell Hutchings
DMA, Eastman School of Music
MM, Florida State University
BM, Western Carolina University
Associate Professor of Voice
Applied Performance Area Coordinator
Areas of Expertise:
Vocal Performance
Opera & Musical Theatre
Commercial Performance
Email: mhutchings@fau.edu
Office Phone: 561-297-4065
Office: AL 251
Dr. Mitchell Hutchings, baritone, is the Director of Florida Atlantic Opera Theatre and founder of Opera in Italy, an international summer program run with the Conservatorio di Musica “G. Puccini” La Spezia and open to students from any institution and any major. He is an Associate Professor of Voice and Applied Performance Area Coordinator at Florida Atlantic University, serves as President of the South Florida Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and is a State Representative of Florida for the National Opera Association. His specialties are classical voice performance, lyric theatre & opera, and commercial vocal coaching.
Praised for a voice of distinctive warmth that “can do anything” (Graham Johnson), Hutchings has sung with Utah Festival Opera, Opera Saratoga, Pensacola Opera, Charlottesville Opera, and Ensemble San Felice in Florence. Concert credits include Handel’s Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic at Our Lady of Victory Basilica, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, and his solo debut at Carnegie Hall at just twenty-eight years old. Stage highlights feature the title role in Sweeney Todd, directed by Tony nominee Terrence Mann, and over thirty-five roles in opera and musical theatre productions worldwide.
He advances technology-driven performance through Opera Hack 3.0 and the European Union project
Music Theatre and New Technologies
(MTNT). As a €5.28 million initiative funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, the MTNT project brings together European and American institutions to explore the intersection of opera and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), in performance and education. Florida Atlantic University honored him with the 2024 Faculty Talon Leadership Award. Pedagogy insights by Hutchings appear in CS Music, Schmopera, and Modern Singer, and he is an alumnus of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program.
His voice studio provides conservatory-style voice training for undergraduate and graduate vocal performance students within the broader resources of an R1 research university. Students and alumni of the studio have performed with Washington National Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Shenzhen Opera, and the Croatian National Theatre, won prizes at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and National NATS events, and continued their studies at Yale, Harvard, Eastman, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes, Stony Brook, Boston University, Florida State, Frost School of Music, University of Wisconsin, Penn State, CCM, and Peabody, among others. The commercial artists he has coached have reached No. 2 on the iTunes World/New Age chart, No. 3 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart, and have been featured in Rolling Stone and many other publications.
A voting member of the Recording Academy® and an active mentor in its GRAMMY U® program, Hutchings bridges campus and industry. He produced, arranged, and conducted on the album Visions of Sounds De Luxe, which earned a Telly Award, GRAMMY® nomination, and the World Entertainment Award for Best R & B Album, while classical albums featuring his work as a producer, Cobalt, Jade, Amethyst ♀, and d’Arc, received three Global Music Awards. His work can be heard on The Colors In My Mind, which received a 2026 GRAMMY nomination for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album.
Hutchings earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, the Master of Music in Voice Performance from Florida State University, and the Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Western Carolina University.
Website:
www.mitchellhutchings.com
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VOCAL STUDENTS WIN AWARDS AT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF SINGING (NATS) SOUTH FLORIDA CHAPTER STUDENT AUDITIONS