Madeleine Mitchell

Madeleine Louise Mitchell MMus, ARCM, GRSM, FRSA is a British violinist who has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in over forty countries.

As Fulbright/ITT Fellow Mitchell gained a master's degree in New York at the Eastman and Juilliard schools studying with Sylvia Rosenberg, working as her graduate assistant, Donald Weilerstein and Dorothy DeLay.

[6][4] Mitchell won the Worshipful Company of Musicians Maisie Lewis Young Artist Award in 1984,[7] resulting in her debut at the Purcell Room at London's South Bank Centre, with further recitals there as Park Lane Group Young Artist 1985 and as winner of the Kirckman Concert Society recital award 1986, when she commissioned her first work, Fantasia by Brian Elias.

She has given recitals at Sydney Opera House (17.3.89), Seoul Center for the Arts (13.4.89) and Hong Kong (18.4.89) as part of a three month tour with the pianist Klaus Zoll under the auspices of the British Council and the Goethe Institute.

[13] Mitchell had considerable success with her 2007 album; "Violin Songs" a collection of short lyrical pieces performed with pianist Andrew Ball, which was named a Classic FM CD of the Week.

She has frequently chaired examination panels, mentors students in the Centre for Performance Science and was invited to act as consultant for the major EU-funded TELMI project 2016-19.

[29] The October 2007 Red Violin festival included two world premieres performances by Mitchell with percussion group Ensemble Bash and the launch of her CD 'Violin Songs' featuring Elizabeth Watts.

Since 2019, a new board was formed with Nicholas Snowman OBE, Michael Beverley DL (chair) and Stephen Barter to plan another festival throughout Leeds in October 2024.

She received an Arts Council England Award to commission and premiere a unique 'concerto' she devised for violin with voices by Jonathan Harvey, Thierry Pecou and Roxanna Panufnik.

Mitchell commissioned a work by Errollyn Wallen, 'Sojourner Truth' for violin and piano, supported by the RVW Trust, which she premiered on International Women's Day 2021 in a livestream concert at St John's Smith Square, London in the programme curated by Mitchell with her London Chamber Ensemble: 'A Century of Music by UK Women' 1921-2021,[37] featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour [38] and BBC Radio 3 In Tune.