Mitchell Arnold, Director of Orchestral Studies
Mitchell Arnold, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies at West Virginia University, has served on the faculties of Northern Illinois University as Director of Orchestras, Northwestern University as Assistant Director of Orchestras, as well as Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. As a frequent guest conductor of the Santa Fe Symphony, he conducted on the gala opening concert of Santa Fe’s newly renovated Lensic Center for the Performing Arts. Other engagements include the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival USA, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and the Omaha Symphony. Additionally, he has appeared with the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, and Chicago Chamber Orchestra, and served as Cover Conductor for the Cleveland Orchestra. He has also conducted such theatrical productions as Carmen, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Cendrillon, Yeoman of the Guard, and Mozart and Salieri, as well as musicals. He was founder and conductor of Chicago’s acclaimed Pitzen Brass Ensemble.
Dr. Arnold has an extensive background in new music. He was a composing and performing member of the noted Chicago-based ensemble, Kapture, and was one of the founding directors of New Music Chicago, a non-profit, new music advocacy organization. He was also a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artist Grant in Composition and several commissions.
He received a Doctorate in Conducting from Northwestern University, where he was a student of Victor Yampolsky. He was also a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Fellowship Orchestra at Tanglewood.
Dr. Arnold has an extensive background in new music. He was a composing and performing member of the noted Chicago-based ensemble, Kapture, and was one of the founding directors of New Music Chicago, a non-profit, new music advocacy organization. He was also a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artist Grant in Composition and several commissions.
He received a Doctorate in Conducting from Northwestern University, where he was a student of Victor Yampolsky. He was also a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Fellowship Orchestra at Tanglewood.