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 , an international summer program run with the Conservatorio di Musica 鈥淕. Puccini鈥 La Spezia and open to 鉴黄师app from any institution and any major. He is an Associate Professor of Voice and Applied Performance Area Coordinator at 鉴黄师app, 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 鈥渃an do anything鈥 (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鈥檚 Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic at Our Lady of Victory Basilica, Brahms鈥檚 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 鈧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. 鉴黄师app 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 鉴黄师app 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庐 and an active mentor in its GRAMMY U庐 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庐 nomination, and the World Entertainment Award for Best R & B Album, while opera and classical albums featuring his work as a producer and vocal soloist, Cobalt, Jade, Amethyst 鈾, 诲鈥橝谤肠, and
Guglielmi: Amalia e Carlo (Live)
received five Global Music Awards for Outstanding Achievement. His work can be heard on The Colors In My Mind, which received both a World Entertainment Award and 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.
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News:
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鉴黄师app PARTNERS WITH TAI ESCUELA UNIVERSITARIA DE ARTES IN MADRID
FLORIDA ATLANTIC PARTNERS IN $7.5 MILLION EUROPEAN-FUNDED PROJECTS INTEGRATING AI AND TECHNOLOGY INTO OPERA
VOCAL STUDENTS WIN AWARDS AT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF SINGING (NATS) SOUTH FLORIDA CHAPTER STUDENT AUDITIONS
Student and Alumni Achievements:
鈥 At least 57 documented honors in National Association of Teachers of Singing Student Auditions, including 25 first-place awards at chapter and regional competitions in classical voice, musical theatre, and commercial music.
鈥 National recognition as a YoungArts Winner with Distinction and as a National Semifinalist, Regional Winner, District Winner, and District Encouragement Award recipient in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
鈥 Scholarships, stipends, and funded admission to Yale University, Eastman School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Boston University, Stony Brook University, University of Arizona, University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison, Penn State University, Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, Mannes School of Music, Florida State University, and other institutions.
鈥 Professional appointments as principal artists, young artists, apprentice artists, comprimario artists, soloists, vocal fellows, professional choristers, and festival artists.
鈥 Engagements with Washington National Opera, the National Symphony Orchestra, Palm Beach Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Shenzhen Opera, the Croatian National Theatre, The Glimmerglass Festival, Teatro Nuovo, Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, Ohio Light Opera, Seagle Music Colony, Finger Lakes Opera, Pensacola Opera, Red River Lyric Opera, Rochester Lyric Opera, and other professional organizations.
鈥 Performances and professional opportunities associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Vienna Summer Music Festival, Russian Opera Workshop, and international training programs in Italy, France, Austria, and Canada.
鈥 Awards and distinctions from the Classical Singer Vocal Competition, Charleston International Music Competition, Amadeus International Music Awards, Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition, GRANDI VOCI International Competition, St. Petersburg Opera Vocal Competition, and other national and international competitions.
鈥 A winner of Italia鈥檚 Got Talent, as well as winners and finalists in classical voice, musical theatre, and commercial music competitions.
鈥 Five alumni are credited as performers or contributors on GRAMMY-nominated albums.
鈥 College and university faculty appointments at the University of Georgia, Whitman College, North Central University, Florida School of the Arts, Capital University, Eastern Illinois University, Millikin University, Alfred University, University of Northwestern鈥揝t. Paul, Crown College, William & Mary, and 鉴黄师app, including appointments at the assistant-professor level.
鈥 Artistic and administrative leadership appointments as artistic directors, music directors, directors of choirs, and leaders of professional vocal and choral organizations.
鈥 Winner and Grand Prize distinctions in the 鉴黄师app Concerto and Aria Competition.
