Brett Mitchell to lead John Williams celebration at 2023 Strings Music Festival

Brett Mitchell will lead the Strings Music Festival Orchestra in an all-John Williams performance on July 1, 2023, at the Strings Music Pavilion in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

John Williams and Brett Mitchell in Nov. 2022 at Severance Music Center in Cleveland, Ohio (Photo by Angela Mitchell)

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Brett Mitchell will return to the Strings Music Festival to lead an all-John Williams program on Saturday, July 1, 2023, the organization has announced.

The program will feature original arrangements for brass and percussion by Timothy Higgins of some of Mr. Williams’s most iconic works, including music from the Star Wars and Harry Potter films, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln. The Cowboys, and several Olympic fanfares.

The orchestra will be comprised of members of the Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia orchestras; the Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Oregon, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Utah symphonies; the Chicago Lyric and San Francisco opera orchestras; the United States Marine Band; and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit stringsmusicfestival.com. Donor presale begins on Tuesday, April 25; tickets will be on sale to the public on Thursday, May 11.

Mr. Mitchell first led the Strings Music Festival in a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 on their 2018 season finale, and returned to lead Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring on their 2022 season finale.