Mitchel Cirker

Mitchell Cirker has enjoyed different musical lives and has enjoyed a diverse musical career in New York City, among others. Mr Cirker presented a solo recital program in celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday at Weill Recital Hall presenting a program of works by living African American composers that included works of Anthony Davis, Dr George Walker, Tania Leon and premiere of works by John Nicholas. On the occasion of Dr George Walker’s 80th birthday , Mr Cirker in an entire program of the composer’s works with the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, portions of which were recorded and shown on CBS Sunday Morning. 

    Interest in the music of our time led to the formation of the Cirker Duo with his percussionist brother , Jason Cirker . Together they commissioned and premiered exciting new works for percussion and piano by James Adler and others also arranging and transcribing assorted piano and string chamber music to fit with the ensemble format in order to present a very large program at the Barge in Brooklyn. Mr Cirker’s brother Jason then became the Music Director for the modern dance company , Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians. Mitchell Cirker also joined as one of their regular keyboard players. For 5 seasons , they performed and toured with the company throughout the country and Europe , including three Joyce Theatre seasons and 5 American Dance Festival commissions. 

   It is Mr Cirker’s work with opera and vocal music preparation that is his major focus now. He prepared the Anthony Davis opera, Tania for the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia and Richard Strauss’s Salome with the Shreveport Opera as well as the Western Hemisphere premiere of the Franz Schreker opera, Der Ferne Klang with the American Symphony Orchestra. 

    Mr Cirker collaborated with several of today’s leading singers and has been frequently heard in that capacity at Merkin Hall and Weill Recital Hall. Through the Marilyn Horne Foundation , Mr Cirker performed with baritone Nmon Ford also toured throughout the state of Louisianna in master classes and recitals with soprano , Monique McDonald . 

   Mitchell Cirker lives in New York City and is currently one of the most sought after coaches and maintains a very busy private coaching studio. He is also a regular participant in programs and lectures through the Metropolitan Opera Guild and has been recognized for his work in German opera and song literature by the Wagner Society of New York.