Debut with the Grant Park Orchestra

Brett Mitchell will make his debut with the Grant Park Orchestra in July 2017 with a program of Kenji Bunch, Saint-Saëns, and Copland.

Brett Mitchell will make his debut with the Grant Park Orchestra on Wednesday, July 19 during the 2017 Grant Park Music Festival, the organization announced on Wednesday:

Conductor Brett Mitchell leads the orchestra and rising star Angelo Xiang Yu in Saint-Saëns' romantic Violin Concerto No. 3. The evening opens with Kenji Bunch's uplifting Supermaximum and closes with The Red Pony, Aaron Copland's film score adapted from the John Steinbeck 1933 novella.

To learn more, please visit the following links:

• Concert page on Grant Park Music Festival website
• Chicago Tribune: "For 2017 Grant Park Music Festival, music and finances join in sunny harmony"
• Chicago Classical Review : "Kalmar’s Grant Park contract renewed through 2021; festival lineup announced for this summer"