Violist, storyteller, and arts administrator based in Richmond, Virginia
Hello there! My name is Anna, and it's a pleasure to meet you! I am a violinist and violist, storyteller, and aspiring professional in the performing arts. I am so excited for the opportunity to work with you and looking forward to chatting soon.
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Hello there! My name is Anna Mitchell (she/her), and it's a pleasure to meet you!I am a senior in the Department of Music at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where I am working towards a Bachelor of Arts in Music. I am also a member of the Honors College. A violinist of over ten years and a violist of two years (and counting!), I study violin with Susanna Klein and viola with Molly Sharp. (You can also find me singing alongside Vox Concordia, VCU's treble choir, and and studying oboe with Alyssa McKeithen just for fun!)When I'm not working behind the scenes as teaching assistant of the VCU Symphony or practicing new repertoire with the Grove Avenue Quartet, you can find me exploring my other largest passion: storytelling. Whether I'm writing program notes as part of my work as program editor for the VCU Symphony, drafting copy for a new post on @vcumusicstrings, or assisting with another recruiting event for my studio, I absolutely love getting to tell the stories of the classical music world, both sharing my own experiences and inviting others to come write their own tales.I will graduate with my B.A. in Music in May 2023 and will spend the following summer working as Program Design Assistant at Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Afterwards, I plan to pursue full-time work in arts administration . My key areas of focus are media and communications, education, community engagement, and accessibility.To read further about the aforementioned projects (and to hear more about the other work I do), click here! You can also click here if you'd like to get in touch.
Photo by Daniel Myssyk.
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Programs
Program Notes
Photography
@vcumusicstrings
Junior Recital
Resume
Coming soon: A portfolio showcasing my work in freelance graphic design, including program editing, poster creation, and more. Clients include VCUarts's Department of Music and the Richmond Symphony School of Music.
Fuller projects created for the VCU Symphony as part of Honors College coursework.
Unity (Spring 2022)
Eyes on the Sky (Fall 2022)
Coming soon: Welcome to Paradise Valley (Spring 2023).
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A project by VCU Symphony members Anna Mitchell, Sasha Wang, and Nathaniel Wood as part of the Honors section of APPM 355: Orchestra. Advised by VCU Symphony conductor Daniel Myssyk.
Richmond is home to a variety of populations, including refugees from various countries. The conductor of the VCU Symphony, Daniel Myssyk, came to the three students enrolled in the Honors section of Orchestra with one goal in mind: to invite those individuals to our upcoming performance and to make them feel as welcome as possible.Our project came with several goals in mind, including:
To create invites to send to local refugees, as well as other folks interested in attending our performance,
To craft an enticing poster that would match the invite,
To write program notes for each of the four pieces we would be performing,
To inform local media about our upcoming performance, including sharing a press release we created,
To promote the performance on various university social media platforms, such as @vcumusicstrings, and
To assemble the entire program in Adobe InDesign, to be presented at our performance.
Scroll down to view the various components of this project that I worked on. Programs, posters, and invites were all printed locally at Uptown Color.
Created in Adobe InDesign by Anna Mitchell.
This is the second program that I created for use in a VCU Symphony performance. The program features program notes written by Nathaniel Wood, Sasha Wang, and Anna Mitchell.
Created in Canva by Anna Mitchell and Sasha Wang.
This poster was distributed around campus to advertise Unity. The centerpiece of this performance was Valerie Coleman's Umoja, Anthem of Unity for Orchestra, so the poster was centered around this work. The program also featured works by Saint-Saëns, Dvořák, and Borodin and performances by the VCU Symphony's Concerto Competition winners, as noted at the bottom. The poster was displayed at various campus locations, and additionally shared on various social media platforms.