Roscoe Mitchell Official YouTube Channel

Roscoe Mitchell (1940) is an internationally renowned virtuoso musician and composer. He is a founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the Trio Space, and founder of the Creative Arts Collective (Michigan). His instrumental expertise includes the gamut of the saxophone and recorder families, clarinets, flute, piccolo, and the transverse flute -- in addition to his invention, the Percussion Cage: an elaborate percussion instrument consisting of instruments of worldwide origin in addition to found objects. This year (2024) he was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Music. His recent awards include 2020 NEA Jazz Master Fellowship, the US Artist Award (2019), ASCAP Founders Award (2018), Doris Duke Artist Award (2014). Mitchell’s works are frequently presented by orchestras and ensembles worldwide. He is also a visual artist and has had two major solo exhibitions in 2023 and 2024.