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Kenneithia Mitchell

Vocal Teacher

American Soprano, Kenneithia Mitchell Is a Grammy winning, recording artist who

is lauded by The San Francisco Classical Voice, “There is something in Kenneithia

Mitchell’s voice that goes straight to the heart. With a singularly mellow voice,

effortless, brilliant phrasing, she disappears in the role, serves the music and

drama, no ego showing or heard in the voice — a true artist, not a star-wannabe.”

She has traveled the world singing the roles of Liu in Turandot, Violetta in La

Traviata, the title role of Madame Butterfly, The Queen of the Night and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Gilda in Rigoletto, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, among others, in over 100 performances across six different countries. In the U.S. Ms. Mitchell has sung with Baltimore Opera, Virginia Opera, Connecticut Opera, Opera Burlington, Seattle Opera, Houston Ebony Opera, Delaware Opera, Central City Opera, Atlantic Opera USA, Opera Orlando, and West Bay Opera. She has also sung with the Lincoln Center Jazz Quartet at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California and can be heard as soprano soloist on a collaborative

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recording of Wynton Marsalis’ entitled

“All Rise.” Other recordings include The Silver Anniversary of Morgan State

University as featured artist in Moses Hogan’s “Great Day” which has aired every

Christmas on the Maryland Public Television for more than 5 years. Mrs. Mitchell

has performed at Carnegie Hall, and at the Orlando International Fringe Festival

where she premiered the role of Candace in "The Other Woman, my Mother-in-

Law."

Mrs. Mitchell holds awards from the Rosa Ponselle Foundation, the Jensen

Foundation, the Metropolitan Opera National Council, the Boris Christoff

International Competition, Salon de Virtuosi and The Leontyne Price Vocal Arts

Competition.

While Mrs. Mitchell is an accomplished performing artist, she has also been

teaching for more than ten years. Her students sing music from all different genres

such as classical, pop, gospel, jazz, spirituals, and musical theater. She also gives

vocal training for orators in broadcasting, infomercial. preaching as well as voiceover

actors. With students from all stages of development and ages ranging

from six (6) years old, Mrs. Mitchell trains individuals who are a complete

novice and have never had a voice lesson or acting class, never been in

chorus, cannot read music, have never had a table read, to teens as playlist

favorites on SoundCloud and Spotify as well as professional singing and

acting artists with top number one hit records on the charts, singers on The

Voice, lead award winning actors, performers in Off-Broadway hits and

International pop and social media sensations. Her students have won multiple

awards and have been accepted to some of the top schools in the U.S.

including Manhattan School of Music (Opera performance majors with full

scholarship) Boston Conservatory (full Scholarship), Florida State University,

Fisk University (full Scholarship), University of Florida, Ithaca College, Howard

University, Pace University, Carnegie Mellon University, NYU, University of

Central Florida, University of Michigan, Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody

Conservatory, New England Conservatory, Howard University, Catholic

University, and Indiana University. Her student actors have also been

accepted to top schools in the U.S. including the Stellar Adler Studio of

Acting in New York City as aspiring Thespians, and NYU Tish. Several of her

high school teenagers including her own daughter was awarded an applause

award for best lead actor in a musical and the chance to represent Orlando,

Fl as a candidate for the Jimmy Awards in New York City. She has also trained

professional singing artists with an internationally released single and video

that was the highlight at the EDC Orlando 2019 and hit #1 on the Billboard

charts in Italy.

She originally began teaching as a request to so many fans who admired her

singing and repeatedly asked if she taught in addition to her professional

career. For years the reply was always a resounding “No!!” With constant

travelling and touring in other countries she rarely ever stayed in one place

for an extended period. and simply did not have enough down time to be

consistent with training other individuals. Therefore, taking on students

wouldn’t be something she could commit to. Nonetheless, she realized there

was a gift and an overwhelming passion inside her to share with other

performers. However, she noticed how little performing opportunities there

were available for minorities. Her passion began to grow so strong that she

created performing opportunities for those in urban communities and

opened her very own teaching studio called Ultimate Soprano, Inc. Its

mission is “To provide an open door for aspiring young artists.” Through

Ultimate Soprano, Inc. Mrs. Mitchell developed Ultimate Soprano Vocal

Studio which presents three annual fully produced concerts for her singers

with live band, dancers, commentators, and actors.

Mrs. Mitchell has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Vocal performance from

Morgan State University and a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard

School and is an eight-time award winning director of "The Book False

Profit" live-streaming now on Tubi TV.

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