Dr. Katina Mitchell is a musician and teacher based in San Diego, California. Her interdisciplinary work pairs an adventurous curiosity with historical specialization, spanning medieval morality plays, choral music, musicology, and song. Recent engagements include singing new music in a featured vocal trio with the San Diego Symphony (365 by Joey Roukens), soprano soloist in the world premiere of Missa Sacra Profana by Andrew Bearden, soprano soloist for the San Diego Master Chorale’s Messiah, and soprano solos in Mozart’s Requiem with Palomar Symphony Orchestra and Choir. As a soprano she has performed with organizations such as Monday Evening Concerts, Heidi Duckler Dance, MicroFest LA, Mainly Mozart Festival, Vajra Voices, Volti San Francisco, Lautten Compangey Berlin, Da Camera Society of Los Angeles, Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, The Getty, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Ensemble Vocatrix. Her artistic work has been featured at the Medieval History Center in Azincourt (France), on the BBC, on NPR/KPBS: The Finest, on NPR: Life in Berlin, on KPFK.fm, in Ampersand LA, and in the Los Angeles Times. Since 2023, she has presented her original musicology research on art song composer Alice Barnett at the San Diego History Center, the Western History Association Conference in Los Angeles, Palomar College, the San Diego National Association of Teachers of Singing Symposium at SDSU, and on KPBS. In 2025 she presented a paper on Barnett at the Society for American Music’s national conference and also gave a three-part lecture recital series on her life and art songs at the La Jolla Athenaeum. A lover of choral music, Katina can be found performing in churches and choral ensembles around Southern California, and has sung as both soloist and chorister with the Schola Cantorum of St. James-by-the-Sea, Sacra/Profana, and the San Diego Master Chorale, and looks forward to a choral tour to Wells, England this summer. Other recent engagements include coaching German diction as music staff for San Diego Opera, performing and guest lecturing at University of San Diego, singing backup for a concert of Beatles music at the Balboa Park Organ Pavilion, and performing self-accompanied medieval songs at the Athenaeum in La Jolla. She is a member of the music faculty at Palomar College, serves on the Executive Board of SDNATS, and maintains a private studio.
Katina Mitchell
Part Time Faculty Music
kmitchell@palomar.edu
(760) 744-1150 ext 2327