Mitchell Giambalvo, Piano

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Dr. Mitchell Giambalvo received his doctorate in piano performance from Florida State University. He then returned to complete a second master’s degree in collaborative piano before becoming an adjunct professor of piano at Troy University in Alabama. Giambalvo moved to Salt Lake City and joined the University of Utah staff in 2019. He is a freelance vocal diction coach for singers, works with a variety of instrumentalists, and continues to pursue his love of collaborative music making in Utah. Giambalvo has performed as a pianist for the Utah Opera, is a substitute pianist with the Utah Symphony, and is the pianist for the Utah Flute Association – for which he recently performed with Catherine Ransom Karoly (Associate Principal Flutist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic) and Dr. Erika Boysen (Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of North Carolina Greensboro) at Westmister College. At the University of Utah, he also served as the pianist for the International Trombone Festival in 2023. Recent performances as a pianist include The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Utah Opera), Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony (Utah Symphony), and Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (NOVA Chamber Music Series).