Rob P. Mitchell
Rob has had a love of music his entire life. He was born into a family of music. Both of his parents sang opera. He was frequently obsessed with the piano as a child, not taking lessons until a teenager, but picking out music by ear and making up his own arrangements and versions of music he heard from all kinds of sources.
He started taking private violin lessons at age 9, and decided he wanted to become a composer after seeing the movie “Amadeus” at age 14. He took music theory classes, chorus, orchestra in his public high school, and began taking private composition lessons at age 16, eventually attending the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division when he was a senior in high school. There he played in the orchestra, sang in the chorus, took theory and keyboard harmony. That same year he had a piece performed by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
Rob has been teaching since 2004. Teaching elementary school music and private violin, piano, composition, and guitar. He taught English for two years in Korea. After returning to the US in 2012 has been teaching music at various independent schools in Pinellas and Hillsborough County. He has Level 1 and 2 Orff certifications, and is currently working on a musical/operetta with a local drama colleague, about a local shop in Tampa that was open in the 1990s.
Rob earned a Master of Music from Florida State University and a Bachelor of Music from the Mannes College of Music.
