So how does a kid from Melbourne end up as one of the world’s leading pop, rock, orchestral, R&B and hip hop recording engineer / producers?

Mitch Kenny has some rather impressive international credits to his name including Beyoncé, Elton John, Zedd, Nicole Scherzinger, Quincy Jones, Chris Brown, Snoop Dog & Wiz Khalifa, Luis Miguel and Boys II Men. Then there’s his work with Australia’s finest: Daniel Johns, Hermitude, Dune Rats, Paul Kelly, Horrorshow, Delta Goodrem, Josh Pyke and Joyride among many others.

Even if you’ve never heard the name Mitch Kenny, you will have heard his work, which has appeared on multiple Grammy and ARIA Award winning releases and multiple UK, US, Australian number 1 albums and songs.

Mitch’s career started in studios in Melbourne in the late 1990’s. After splitting his time between Australia and Los Angeles through the early 2000’s,  he moved to LA in 2008. Mitch landed at Hollywood’s famed and infamous Record Plant where he worked between 2008 and 2012. Being at Record Plant gave Mitch a unique insight and work experience down in the deep end of the global music making business. Shortly after starting, he was recording the string section for a Mary J Blige record. Over the following weeks, months and years, he worked alongside some producers including Pharell Williams, Ron Fair, Quincy Jones and Zedd, to name a few.

Mitch returned to Australia for a stint between 2012 and 2017. His diversity was highlighted in the 2015 ARIA awards where he contributed to records which garnered 9 ARIA nominations. These nominations included Engineer of the Year and 6 other nominations for Hermitude’s Dark Night Sweet Light,  a Best Classical Album nomination for Brandenburg Celebrates by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Mooroolbark by Barney McAll which was awarded the ARIA for Best Jazz Album.

Since returning to Los Angeles in 2017, Mitch has worked with artists including Diana Ross, Maluma, Phillip Lawrence, Adam Lambert, Lil Tjay, Kosine, Sean Kingston and Trinidad James. He has contributed songs to the sound tracks for the Fox television shows Empire and Star and has also mixed the scores for the for the forthcoming William Shatner & Christopher Lloyd Film Senior Moment and the Steven Spielberg series Why We Hate.