Reagan Mitchell
April 21 @ 5:00 pm

Reagan Mitchell - Saxophone

Brandon Davis -Bass
Mark Kelso -Drums

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Reagan Mitchell, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in music with an emphasis in Jazz Studies and his Educational Specialist’s and Doctor of Philosophy degrees with an emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction. The transdisciplinary training in composition, performance, and educational philosophy has afforded them the space to explore the social, communal, therapeutic, political, and geographic implications of music. In addition to currently being independent scholar based in Toronto, ON, Reagan was an Associate Professor (2019-2025) in the Division of Liberal Arts at University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) and prior was the A. Lindsay O’Connor Endowed Visiting Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Colgate University (2017-2019). Reagan has freelanced as a saxophonist, composer, and arranger in the Nashville, Greeley, Denver, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, New York, and Greensboro areas. Some of the musical luminaries he/they have performed with are Charlie Hunter, Bobby Previte, Jnerio Jarel, Randy Brecker, Ernestine Anderson, David Liebman, Slide Hampton, Deborah Brown, Tim Hagans, Dick Oatts, Steve Wiest, Marvin Stamm, Mike Longo, and Benny Golson. The opportunity to perform in such culturally and ethnically diverse settings has profoundly influenced Reagan’s overall approach to scholarship, pedagogy, and music. Moreover, the merger of scholarship and performance has proven to be invaluable to Reagan’s artistic and intellectual development. Through these expanded courses of engagement, they have laid the foundation for a program of research on the cultural and historical influences of race, space, gentrification, auditory architecture, and communal wisdom on education. Reagan’s scholarship brings together curriculum theory, ethnic studies, Black diaspora studies, Critical Race Theory, Queer theory, critical geography, and critical sound studies. 

photo by Steel String Photography