Bobby Mitchell

Bobby Mitchell is a young American pianist whose interests are embedded in the here and now of music as performance art in combination with the more standard classical repertory of centuries past. His diverse interests in historical performance practice and in contemporary trends have brought him to venues across Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. He records for the Alpha Music label (Haydn on an original pianoforte) and for Telos Music. Bobby holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (the Netherlands), and the Musikhochschule Freiburg (Germany), and is an ORCiM Doctoral Researcher and enrolled in the University of Leiden's Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (the Netherlands). Primary teacher include Nelita True, David Kuyken, Robert Hill, Stephen Perry, and Bart van Oort.