Feature: "Brett Mitchell reflects on his time in Cleveland"

Photo by Roger Mastroianni

Brett Mitchell recently spoke with WCLV Classical 104.9's Bill O'Connell about his four-season tenure with The Cleveland Orchestra, which concludes in September 2017 when Mr. Mitchell assumes the post of Music Director of the Colorado Symphony. To listen to this feature, please click here.

Audio: "CIM Live Intermission: Brett Mitchell"

Photo by Peter Lockley

Brett Mitchell spoke with WCLV's Mark Satola during the intermission of the live broadcast of his performance last Wednesday with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. To hear this interview, please click here.

Audio: Brett Mitchell previews upcoming Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra concert

Brett Mitchell leads the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra in performance at Severance Hall. (Photo by Roger Mastroianni)

Brett Mitchell spoke with WCLV's Bill O'Connell about the next concert in the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's 2016-17 season, presented on Sunday, February 19 at Severance Hall:

In its annual collaboration with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra opens this concert with a new piece by American composer Mason Bates [Sea-Blue Circuitry]. The remainder of the program features two French works—lush and beautiful—with the women of chorus singing in Claude Debussy's Nocturnes and the full chorus (and soprano soloist) joining in for Francis Poulenc's passionate and effervescent Gloria.

To hear this interview, please click here.

Audio: "Spend the holidays with The Cleveland Orchestra"

Brett Mitchell will lead The Cleveland Orchestra and Choruses in their 2016 Christmas Concerts. (Photo by Roger Mastroianni)

Brett Mitchell spoke with WCLV Classical 104.9's Bill O'Connell about The Cleveland Orchestra's 2016 Christmas Concerts, presented from December 10 through 18 at Severance Hall. To hear this interview, please click here.

Audio: Brett Mitchell discusses "It's a Wonderful Life" with The Cleveland Orchestra

Brett Mitchell will lead The Cleveland Orchestra in Dmitri Tiomkin's score for ‘It's a Wonderful Life’ at Severance Hall on December 8 and 9 as part of its 2016 holiday festival.

Brett Mitchell spoke with WCLV Classical 104.9's Bill O'Connell about his performances with The Cleveland Orchestra of Dmitri Tiomkin's score for It's a Wonderful Life on December 8 and 9 at Severance Hall. To hear this interview, please click here.

Audio: Brett Mitchell discusses "The Nutcracker," "It's a Wonderful Life," and The Cleveland Orchestra's annual holiday festival

Brett Mitchell will lead The Cleveland Orchestra and Pennsylvania Ballet in George Balanchine's production of ‘The Nutcracker’ at the State Theatre in downtown Cleveland from Nov. 30 through Dec. 4. (Photo by Alexander Iziliaev)

Brett Mitchell recently spoke with WCLV Classical 104.9's Bill O'Connell about his upcoming performances with The Cleveland Orchestra of The Nutcracker (presented with the Pennsylvania Ballet), It's a Wonderful Life, and its annual holiday festival. To hear these interviews, please click here.

Audio: Intermission interview on WCLV

Photo by Roger Mastroianni

WCLV Classical 104.9 broadcast live the first concert of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's 2016-17 season on Friday, Nov. 18. At intermission, Bill O'Connell spoke with COYO Music Director Brett Mitchell.  To hear this interview, please click here.

Program
BRIGGS - Fountain of Youth [WORLD PREMIERE, commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
BRUCKNER - Symphony No. 4 ("Romantic")

Audio: Brett Mitchell discusses Bruckner and a world premiere

Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra music director Brett Mitchell (Photo by Peter Lockley)

Brett Mitchell spoke with WCLV's Bill O'Connell about the first concert of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's 2016-17 season, presented on Friday, November 18 at Severance Hall.

On the program will be the world premiere of Roger Briggs's Fountain of Youth and Bruckner's Fourth Symphony.

To listen to or download the complete interview, please click here.

For more information or to purchase tickets for this event, please click here.

Audio: Brett Mitchell discusses John Williams and the Colorado Symphony

Brett Mitchell is featured in the current episode of Comic Book Central, discussing the music of John Williams immediately following his performance of selections from Superman with The Cleveland Orchestra. From his studio at Severance Hall, Mr. Mitchell also speaks about his upcoming appointment as Music Director of the Colorado Symphony.

To listen to or download this episode, please click here; Mr. Mitchell's interview begins at 9:45.

Audio: Brett Mitchell discusses Cleveland Orchestra's Rotary celebration

Rotarian Mike Johns and associate conductor Brett Mitchell at the WCLV studios on Wednesday, October 19, discussing this weekend's special performance by The Cleveland Orchestra.

The Rotary Foundation, founded one hundred years ago by Clevelander Arch Klumph, will be honored with a Cleveland Orchestra concert this Sunday, October 23 at Severance Hall. Before leading the program of Beethoven, Debussy, Chabrier, Liszt, and John Williams, associate conductor Brett Mitchell joined Rotarian Mike Johns to speak with WCLV's Bill O'Connell about the concert. To listen to or download the complete interview, please click here.

Audio: "Brett Mitchell on becoming the Colorado Symphony's next Music Director"

Brett Mitchell, who will become music director of the Colorado Symphony in 2017, leading the Cleveland Orchestra in concert. (Photo by Roger Mastroianni)

Brett Mitchell has given an extensive interview to Colorado Public Radio about his recent appointment as Music Director of the Colorado Symphony:

Conductor Brett Mitchell is the next music director of the Colorado Symphony. The orchestra announced on Sept. 12 that the 37-year-old conductor will take over in 2017 -- though he’ll lead five concerts at Boettcher Concert Hall this season.

Mitchell, who’s currently associate conductor with the Cleveland Orchestra, spoke with CPR Classical’s David Rutherford just two days after the big announcement. He talked about what he’s learned from working with the Cleveland Orchestra, what he hopes to accomplish in his first concerts with the Colorado Symphony and what he remembers about his first conducting gig.

To hear the complete interview, please click here.

Audio + Review: Brett Mitchell and The Cleveland Orchestra perform "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

Brett Mitchell is featured in Episode 237 of The IndyCast.

Brett Mitchell is featured in the current episode of The IndyCast, previewing his performances of Raiders of the Lost Ark with The Cleveland Orchestra that closed the 2016 Blossom Music Festival over Labor Day Weekend.

The program also includes a review of the performance given on Saturday, September 3: 

The Cleveland Orchestra, Brett Mitchell - could not ask for a better performance. Spot on. Every punch, every whip crack, every crash, every explosion, every little moment, every little beat - all timed out perfectly.

There’s not much that can recapture the feeling of seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time, but this...comes awfully close.

To listen to or download this episode, please click here. Mr. Mitchell's interview begins at 1:09:50. The review begins at 1:53:00.

Audio: Brett Mitchell discusses John Williams with "Comic Book Central"

Brett Mitchell is featured in the current episode of Comic Book Central, discussing the music of John Williams in advance of his performances this weekend of Raiders of the Lost Ark with The Cleveland Orchestra. From Comic Book Central:

Indiana Jones and Superman are coming to musical life in Cleveland! On this special bonus episode of Comic Book Central, I sit down with the conductor and the artistic administrator of the Cleveland Orchestra, Brett Mitchell and Ilya Gidalevich, to chat about two action-packed events – Raiders of the Lost Ark: In Concert and Superman at the Symphony!

To listen to or download this episode, please click here.

Audio: Brett Mitchell discusses upcoming Cleveland Orchestra performance

Brett Mitchell at the ideastream studios on Wednesday, August 10. (Photo by Angela Mitchell)

Brett Mitchell spoke with Mark Satola on WCLV Classical 104.9 this afternoon about The Cleveland Orchestra's concert tomorrow evening, which marks the culmination of the orchestra's summer-long residency in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland. To hear this interview, please click here.

Audio: Brett Mitchell discusses upcoming Cleveland Orchestra concert celebrating Cleveland Museum of Art's centennial

Associate conductor Brett Mitchell will lead The Cleveland Orchestra in a performance on Sunday, June 26 celebrating the centennial of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Orchestra's neighbor in University Circle.

Brett Mitchell joined host Bill O'Connell on WCLV Classical 104.9 this afternoon to discuss The Cleveland Orchestra's upcoming performance on Sunday, June 26, which will serve as the finale of the Cleveland Museum of Art's Centennial Festival Weekend. To hear this interview, please click here.

Audio: Brett Mitchell and Jahja Ling discuss 30 years of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra

Jahja Ling (left), Robert Conrad (middle), and Brett Mitchell (right) spoke at the WCLV studios in Cleveland.

The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's current music director Brett Mitchell and founding music director Jahja Ling reminisced with WCLV's Robert Conrad during the broadcast of COYO's 30th season finale on Sunday, May 8. To hear the complete interview, please click here.

Audio: Brett Mitchell previews the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's 30th season finale on WCLV

Brett Mitchell joined host Bill O'Connell on WCLV Classical 104.9 this afternoon to discuss the final concert of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's 30th season, presented this Sunday, May 8 at Severance Hall. To hear this interview, please click here.

Preview: "Cleveland Play House presents 'The Good Peaches': Brett Mitchell & Laura Kepley"

Cleveland Play House artistic director Laura Kepley and Cleveland Orchestra associate conductor Brett Mitchell at the WCLV studios.

The Cleveland Orchestra's Brett Mitchell and Cleveland Play House's Laura Kepley recently spoke with WCLV Classical 104.9's Jacqueline Gerber about their upcoming world premiere collaboration, The Good Peaches. To hear this interview, please click here. To hear it as it appeared on WCPN's The Sound of Applause, please click here.

Audio: "Star Wars: The Score Awakens"

Brett Mitchell discusses John Williams's Oscar-nominated score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens with host Bill O'Connell on an upcoming hourlong special set air on WCLV Classical 104.9 on Saturday, January 23 at 5 p.m. Eastern. A synopsis from WCLV:

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is already the biggest movie of all time in the United States. The soundtrack is an original score by John Williams, who has written the music for all seven Star Wars movies, plus other classics like Indiana Jones, E.T., Home Alone, and many, many more. Brett Mitchell, Associate Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra, is a die-hard fan of John Williams and Star Wars, so WCLV invited him to the KeyBank Studio to take us through the score.

To listen to "Star Wars: The Score Awakens," please click here.

Audio: "Awakening John Williams's 'Force' with Brett Mitchell"

Photo by Gregg Barckholtz, edited by Dacia Clay

Brett Mitchell discusses John Williams's Oscar-nominated score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens with host Dacia Clay on the most recent episode of Houston Public Media's Classical Classroom. A synopsis from HPM:

This episode is full of spoilers – not just spoilers about The Force Awakens, but about future Star Wars episodes. Okay – they could be future spoilers. Right now, they’re just our attempts at trying to find the Easter eggs hidden in John Williams’s new score. This may be the nerdiest and most epic episode ofClassical Classroom to date. Brett Mitchell, Associate Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, is your guide through the music of the latest Star Wars episode. He teaches about John Williams as a composer and about important tools of the compositional trade, and reveals how this new music is tied to Williams’s scores for the original films. Mitchell takes no prisoners, and does not care for Ewoks. Prepare for hyperdrive.

To listen to "Awakening John Williams's 'Force' with Brett Mitchell," please click here.

Photo by Gregg Barckholtz, edited by Dacia Clay