Dr. Brenda Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Music, and has been a faculty member at Miami University since 1990. She teaches music education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and serves as the chair of Music Education. From 1978 to 1988 she taught strings, elementary through high school, in the Mesa Public Schools in Arizona. Dr. Mitchell has adjudicated music festivals and given string clinics in Arizona, Ohio, and Virginia. Each summer since 1989 to 2003 she directed the orchestra for the Ohio Governor's Institute for Gifted and Talented Students, made up of outstanding high school string players. She received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1994 from Arizona State University.
Professional memberships include Ohio Music education Association, Music Educators national Conference, American String Teachers Association, and College Music Society. In 1989 Dr. Mitchell was elected Chair of the Southwest Region of the Ohio Music Education Association, an office she held from 1989 to 1994. Her presentations and clinics at conferences include Music Educators National Conference, American String Teachers Association, and the Ohio Music Education Association. She has served on the editorial board for the research journal Contributions to Music Education . Publications include a book, Lessons in Performance for Beginning and Developing Strings, and articles in Journal of Music Teacher Education, American String Teacher, and Triad.
E-mail: mitchebs@muohio.edu