Conor Mitchell
Composer

Conor Mitchell is a multi-award-winning opera and music-theatre composer, librettist, and stage director, renowned for blending stage design with contemporary visual arts. His work engages audiences through socially relevant, politically charged subjects. A double Ivor Novello British Composer Awards nominee, Conor has received the Arts Council Northern Ireland Major Individual Artists Award and is a life fellow of the Arts Foundation for composition. Notable collaborations include the Rome, Holland, Edinburgh, and Aldeburgh festivals, the National Theatre, and Irish National Opera. Recently, he has been Composer in Residence at Wexford Opera and a Seamus Heaney Writer’s Fellow at Queens University Belfast. His opera Abomination: a DUP Opera was listed in the Top Ten Classical Works of 2019 and won ‘Best Opera Production’ at the 2020 Irish Times Theatre Awards.