Biography

Sarah Mitchell is a certified music educator in Massachusetts, serving grades K-12, with over 6 years of experience teaching middle and high school students. She earned a Bachelor of Music (BM) in Education from Western Michigan University, where she studied classical singing, piano, early music, choral methods, opera, musical theatre singing techniques, cabaret, and pedagogy.

Sarah enjoys exploring a variety of singing styles for her students and varied approaches to music education rooted in a strong classical foundation. Sarah has taught chorus, music history, music technology, music theory, and private voice and piano lessons, and served as music director for productions including 42nd Street, Peter Pan, In the Heights, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Little Mermaid. In 2010, Sarah attended the AIMS Opera/German lieder summer program in Austria and a choral tour of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in Mexico City.

Since moving to Boston in 2011, Sarah has remained active in performance, including voice masterclasses at Dartington, UK; The Conservatorium van Amsterdam; Carnegie Hall; Queens College; the Madison Early Music Festival; and the Amherst Early Music Festival. In 2015, Sarah was selected for the Boston Early Music Festival Young Artist Program and was a semifinalist in the Canticum Gaudium vocal competition in Poznan, Poland. Soon after, Sarah was awarded the Best Opera Singer Award of 2016 by the W.I.S.E. Foundation of New England for a performance with Lowell House Opera at Harvard. She served as the Cantor and Soprano Section Leader at Ascension Parish in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and other local parishes. In the summer of 2021, Sarah completed her Master of Music in Music Education degree (MM MED) from Anderson University in South Carolina.

Sarah has served as manager and assistant festival coordinator for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA) Junior District Festival’s Northeast district. She has prepared students for the Micca Solo and Ensemble, MMEA Senior District, All-State, and National Choirs, as well as the Handel and Haydn Society Youth Choruses and college auditions at Gordon College, Ithaca College, the Hart School, and Berklee College of Music, with a focus on music performance and education.

Sarah began teaching in 2009 and joined Note-worthy Experiences in July 2018.