J.J. Mitchell

Recently named to the Diapason Magazine’s Class of 20 Under 30, John Joseph “JJ” Mitchell has a passion for organ and sacred music pedagogy. He is pursuing a Doctorate in Musical Arts in Organ Performance from the University of Houston (UH) on a Graduate Tuition Fellowship.

He is the Director of Music of Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Houston, Texas; serves as an organist intern of St. Philip Presbyterian Church, also in Houston; and is a graduate teaching assistant in the Music History Department at UH. He holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and the University of Notre Dame; he also studied at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Toulouse (France).

​JJ has served as organist on the music staff of churches such as Christ Church Cathedral (Houston, TX), the Cathedral of St. Thomas More (Arlington, VA) and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart (South Bend, IN). He has performed in these churches as well as at Boston Symphony Hall, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and various other churches in the United States, Canada, France, and England. He is the winner of the Nanovic Grant for European Study for Professional Development and was a finalist for the Frank Huntington Beebe Grant. He has been featured on the "Sounds from the Spires" SiriusXM Radio program and has contributed to the Vox Humana Organ Journal.