{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Geoffrey Mitchell | honorific_suffix = | background = non_performing_personnel | image = | image_size = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB --> | birth_place = | origin = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date 1st) --> | death_place = | genre = | occupation = {{Plainlist| * chorister * Choral conductor }} | label = | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}}--> }}
'''Geoffrey Mitchell''' is a countertenor-voiced chorister and choral conductor.
Mitchell joined Exeter Cathedral choir at the age of eight.<ref name="BCS">{{cite web|url=https://basildonchoral.org/president/|title=President|date=30 October 2010|publisher=Basildon Choral Society|accessdate=18 September 2016|archive-date=8 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208075054/https://basildonchoral.org/president/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ten years later, he joined the Renaissance Singers, while undertaking National Service in the Royal Navy.<ref name="BCS" />
Mitchell has performed with the Purcell Singers, Schütz Choir, Cantores in Ecclesia, Pro Cantione Antiqua and the John Alldis Choir and as a soloist.<ref name="BCS" />
He is a former Professor of Counter-Tenor at the Royal Academy of Music and former chairman and {{as of|2016|lc=y}} is vice-president of the National Federation of Cathedral Old Choristers’ Associations.<ref name="BCS" /> Also {{as of|2016|lc=y}}, he is chief guest conductor of Carillon, guest conductor of Brazil's Camerata Antiqua of Curitiba, and director of the London Festival Singers.<ref name="BCS" />
He conducted early recordings of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita for Andrew Lloyd Webber.<ref name="BCS" /> At live performances by Pink Floyd of their ''Atom Heart Mother'' suite, he conducted his own '''Geoffrey Mitchell Choir''' as well as the brass section. Filmed extracts from two of these performances are included in the Pink Floyd box set ''The Early Years 1965–1972''.<ref name="EYTL">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pinkfloyd.com/news/pdfs/Complete_Early_Years_Box_Track_Listing.pdf |title=Full Track Listing |date= |publisher=Pink Floyd Music |access-date=18 September 2016 |archive-date=21 November 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161121090310/http://www.pinkfloyd.com/news/pdfs/Complete_Early_Years_Box_Track_Listing.pdf |url-status=dead }} (wrongly listed as "Jeffrey Mitchell")</ref>
His awards include an honorary Diploma from the Royal Academy and the licentiate of Trinity College of Music.<ref name="BCS" />
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [http://www.classicstoday.com/orchestra/geoffrey-mitchell-choir/ Geoffrey Mitchell Choir reviews] at Classics Today
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