Aundrey Mitchell, DMA

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.

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 Bachelors (BM) and Masters (MM) music performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Professionals Studies at the Manhattan School of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) Rutgers University. Her principal teachers were Michael Tree, Karen Ritscher, and Lucien Joel.

As a teaching artist in numerous urban community programs, her work with older adults in New York City as a 2020 SU-CASA Artist in Residence inspired and helped to motivate her form Perennial Muse, a nonprofit arts organization focused on providing year-long ongoing creative aging music programs and free live music concerts for older adults, adult learners, and caregivers in NYC. The mission is to utilize music as a healing connective bridge not only between the older adult community and local New York City musicians and teaching artists, but also for those persons experiencing age related cognitive decline, dementia, and Alzheimer's and their loved ones and caregivers. Bringing this to fruition is not just a goal, but a much-needed necessity. I would love to see the older adult community creatively and musically engaged, connected, and thriving daily with music and sound health.