This concert is the North Carolina Symphony debut for Mary-Mitchell Campbell.

Mary-Mitchell Campbell is a conductor, music director, orchestrator, composer, and arranger who has served as music director for Broadway shows including The Prom, Mean Girls, My Love Letter to Broadway, For The Girls, Tuck Everlasting, Finding Neverland, Big Fish, The Addams Family, Company, Sweeney Todd, and Some Like it Hot. She is also the Music Director for New York City Center’s Encores! She won a Drama Desk for Best Orchestrations for the 2006 revival of Company and was nominated for the Off-Broadway productions of Allegro and Hello Again.

Campbell is the Founder/President of ArtsIgnite (formerly ASTEP) which recruits and trains artists to teach young people through the arts. She is also on the advisory board for Maestra, an organization empowering female and non-binary musicians, and is a founding member of MUSE - Musicians United for Social Equity.

Campbell is from North Carolina and graduated from Furman University and North Carolina School of the Arts. After previously teaching on the faculties of The Juilliard School, New York University, and Boston College, she continues to teach master classes and private lessons.

In addition to her Broadway and touring credits, Campbell performs frequently with artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Gavin Creel, Jessica Vosk, and Raul Esparza. In her pop career, she has worked with Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Carole King, Amy Grant, Kelly Clarkson, James Taylor, and Josh Groban, among others. She was Music Director and orchestrator of HBO’s Homeschool Musical and Vocal Director for Season 1 of Peacock’s Girls5Eva. Additionally, she served as the vocal coach for Better Nate Than Ever on Disney+, where she made a cameo appearance.

She has conducted orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Nashville Symphony, and is involved in leading the Colorado Symphony’s Imagination Artist Series.