Rachel Mitchell

Visiting Lecturer of Composition-Theory

B.M. (music education) and M.M. (music theory), Texas Tech University; completing her Ph.D. (music theory), University of Texas.

Ms. Mitchell holds a Kent Kennan Endowed Graduate Fellowship at the University of Texas. She has presented papers at regional conferences of the College Music Society and the Society for Music Theory. She received the Colvin Award for the best student paper at the 2005 Texas Society for Music Theory conference. Her research interests include the music and writings of Robert Gerhard and other Second Viennese School composers, twentieth-century Mexican composers, film music criticism, and pop-rock theory. In addition to her research, she is a performer of the French horn and has played with several civic orchestras in Texas and New Mexico.