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Tom Mitchell

 

Thomas Mitchell
American Youth Concert Orchestra, Interim Conductor
2026-2027 Season

Thomas Mitchell has served as a school string teacher for over 34 years at elementary, middle, high school, and college levels. His teaching positions include the Merrillville Community Schools in Indiana, Asbury College in Kentucky, and is most recently retired from the Frederick County Public Schools in Maryland. In addition, Mr. Mitchell held an 18-year tenure with the Frederick Regional Youth Orchestra as Conductor for the Symphonia Orchestra and founder of the FRYO Concert Strings and Summer Music Academy. He has guest conducted with the Frederick Symphony Orchestra, the Piedmont Symphony, and several honors orchestras in Harford, Carroll, Washington, and Frederick counties in Maryland, and Spotsylvania County in Virginia. 

An active performer he has held the position of Principal Cellist in the Frederick Symphony Orchestra for the past 25 years, and maintains a studio of private cello students. His former playing experiences include Principal Cellist of the Northwest Indiana Symphony, and cellist for the Thompson String Quartet, the Del Gesu String Quartet, and the Fredericktowne String Quartet. He studied cello with Deborah Reeder of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Helga Winold at Indiana University, both Eugene Rosov and Christopher Rex, and orchestral conducting with Dr. Marc McCoy at Shepherd University. He has composed several pieces for string orchestra, full orchestra, small church orchestra, and arrangements for his family quartet. 

He earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, a Master of Arts degree in Christian Education from Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky, National Board certification in 2018, and has been a member of National Association for Music Education since 1981. 

He and his wife Cathy reside in Ijamsville, Maryland.