Mitchell Eithun is a church musician, composer and mathematician. He has over 100 published pieces of handbell music, including commissions from prominent community and church handbell ensembles. Mitchell is interested in developing innovative handbell rehearsal techniques and writing about the history of church music.
Currently Mitchell is the handbell editor for Beckenhorst Press, and a carillonneur at Duke University Chapel. He is also the founding director of Bell Durham, a community handbell ensemble in Durham, North Carolina and recently completed a Master of Divinity with a focus in Theology and the Arts from Duke Divinity School. Mitchell also holds a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and computer science and a minor in music from Ripon College and a Master of Science in computational mathematics from Michigan State University.
Mitchell is an associate member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America and a seminar instructor Handbell Musicians of America. In his spare time he enjoys learning the carillon and traveling to new places.
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