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
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.