Conor Mitchell is a composer, librettist, and director celebrated for crafting a vivid “total theatre”.

A double Ivor Novello nominee, his works traverses opera, orchestral music, and music-theatre, but always with a clear vision: to blend visual‐arts aesthetic, queer identity, political commentary, and theatrical innovation into compositions that resonate on multiple levels.

His Abomination: a DUP Opera was listed among the Top Ten Classical Works of 2019; his recent large scale orchestra works Riot Symphony (referencing the music and activism of Pussy Riot and Sinéad O’Connor) and queer MASS, a major orchestral or choral‐orchestral work with queer thematic content have forced important progress in LGBTQ+ ideas in contemporary classical music.

Mitchell held a fellowship at Queen’s University Belfast’s Seamus Heaney Centre for 2022‐23 alongside writers Roddy Doyle and Kae Tempest, further reinforcing his cross‐disciplinary profile, served as Wexford Opera Festival Artist‐in‐Residence, and was recently made one of the first Associate Artists at London’s Southbank Centre, a three‐year role that will result in a major new work for their stages.