Dr Helen Mitchell graduated from the University of Oxford with an honours degree in music in 2000. After winning the Northcote Graduate Scholarship, she moved to Sydney to undertake doctoral studies at the Australian Centre for Music Performance, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney.
Her doctoral thesis focused on the pedagogy and acoustic and perceptual features around the ‘open throat’ technique in singing.
From 2004-5, Helen was Dean of Students at The Women's College within The University of Sydney.
She returned to the Sydney Conservatorium in 2005 as an Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow and continues her research in enhancing quality in western classical singing and pedagogy through an Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project.
Since October 2008 she has been Lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium. |