Conor Mitchell

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Conor Mitchell is an opera, music-theatre and orchestral composer / playwright / theatre-maker from Northern Ireland. He is the recipient of the 2016 Arts Council Northern Ireland Major Individual Artist’s Award and is currently working on his body of symphonic work and Concertino for Flute.

Recent scores include his Concerto for Flute and Winds, his Cultural Olympiad opera Our Day (NI Opera), the children’s opera The Musician (National Tour), the choral work Shadowtime (Royal Festival Hall), Requiem for the Disappeared (Spark Opera), the sinfonietta 20: Ceasefire, and his Cabaret Songs in celebration of Britten’s 100th birthday (Aldeburgh Music). He and Mark Ravenhill’s award winning song cycle Ten Plagues (Royal Court, Traverse Theatre) was recently revived at Wilton’s Music Hall, London, performed again by Marc Almond. A reworking of his 2003 musical-theatre piece Group! has just premiered in Ireland, directed by the composer.

As composer/librettist The Incredible Book Eating Boy, The Family Hoffman (The MAC Belfast), The Dummy Tree (National Theatre), Geppetto In Spring (Gothenberg Sweden), Goblin Market, Christmas Betty Ford (Lyric Theatre Belfast), Have a Nice Life (Off Broadway), and many others.

Stage scores include Bent (Trafalgar Studios) with Alan Cummings and over 40 others in Ireland and the West End. He has recently returned from New York reviving his live score for Tuesday at Tescos starring Simon Callow. He has been twice been on attachment to the National Theatre, music advisor to Youth Music Theatre UK, writer in residence at LAMDA, music ambassador for Derry City of Culture’s 2013 Music Promise and an inaugural artist in residence at the new Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast.

Awards include Best Score (New York Musical Theatre Festival), the Stiles and Drewe Song Writers Award, the Arts Foundation Fellowship Award for Composition, awarded by Sir Richard Eyre and two Fringe Firsts. Mitchell is the founder of the new performative music group, The Belfast Ensemble. Their show, The C**t of Queen Catherine has just premiered.