Mitos Andaya

Mitos Andaya, associate director of choral activities, conducts the University Chorus, Collegium Musicum, Women's Glee Club and Classic City Jazz. She teaches conducting and is the faculty advisor for several choral organizations. In 2008, she was awarded one UGA's highest teaching awards, the Richard B. Russell Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Andaya has taught at the university level in the United States, South Africa, and Australia. She served as guest conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Choir in Amsterdam and Arnhem in 2007; conducted the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir in concert at the Lund International Choral Festival in Sweden; and conducted the Netherlands Chamber Choir, Netherlands Radio Chorus, in Haarlem in 2005. She conducted at the 2005 Transient Glory Choral and Chamber Music Festival in New York and worked with Pulitzer Prize winning-composer, David Del Tredici. In 2004, she prepared ensembles for the BBC Philharmonic conductor/Scottish composer, James MacMillan, for his Georgia residency. She was selected to study with Marin Alsop at the Colorado Symphony Orchestra Workshop in 2003, Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival in 2003 and 2004, and Frieder Bernius in Varese, Italy in 2006. 

Her ensembles have been invited to perform throughout the United States such as at the Boston Early Music Festival, Southern American Choral Directors Association Convention, and UNC Greeley Jazz Festival. She has been a member of the conducting faculty of the Westminster Chamber Choir, with Westminster Choir College of Rider University since 2007, and has served as a member of the judges panel for the International A Cappella Festival in Leipzig, Germany.

Valued as a guest clinician and conductor, her knowledge of a wide range of musical styles is reflected in her Renaissance editions with Alliance Music Publications, and her jazz compositions and arrangements with, UNC Jazz Press and Hal Leonard.  She currently serves as vice-president of the National Collegiate Choral Organization and is the chair for Jazz Repertoire and Standards for the Georgia American Choral Directors Association.