Brett Mitchell returns to the Blossom Music Festival with The Cleveland Orchestra
Brett Mitchell will return to The Cleveland Orchestra to lead a program of Bernstein and Copland at the Blossom Music Festival in July 2020. (Photo by Roger Mastroianni)
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Orchestra has announced that Brett Mitchell will return to the Blossom Music Festival to lead the orchestra in a program of Bernstein and Copland during its 2020 summer season:
From conducting legends like Herbert Blomstedt and Edo de Waart, to long-welcomed members of The Cleveland Orchestra’s family like Jahja Ling and Brett Mitchell, audiences can expect terrific classical music played at the highest possible level….
The concert on July 11 sees the return of former Cleveland Orchestra associate conductor Brett Mitchell—now music director of the Colorado Symphony—leading the Orchestra in Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 (“The Age of Anxiety”) with virtuosic pianist Kirill Gerstein. The program closes with music by Aaron Copland, including a suite from his evocative and enduring Appalachian Spring.
The complete program will be:
BERNSTEIN - Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety”
Kirill Gerstein, piano
COPLAND - Suite from Appalachian Spring
COPLAND - Suite from Billy the Kid
For more information, please visit the news release and event page on The Cleveland Orchestra’s website, or read these articles in The Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, and Broadway World.
Brett Mitchell with The The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center (Photo by Roger Mastroianni)