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Preview: "Vertigo" at The Cleveland Orchestra

Ohio Magazine has published a preview of The Cleveland Orchestra's upcoming performance of Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic film, Vertigo, which will be conducted by Brett Mitchell. To read this article, entitled "New Heights," please click here.

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Audio: COYO interview (February 2015 concert)

Brett Mitchell joined host John Simna on WCLV this afternoon to discuss the second subscription concert of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's 2014-15 season, featuring Ravel's Une barque sur l'océan, Debussy's La mer, and Fauré's Requiem with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus. To hear this interview, please click here.

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Blossom debut with The Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced details of its 2015 summer season at the Blossom Music Center, including two performances led by Brett Mitchell on Saturday, August 1. After leading the Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra in Stravinsky's Danses Concertantes, Mr. Mitchell will lead The Cleveland Orchestra in Dvořák's The Noon Witch and Barber's Violin Concerto with soloist James Ehnes. The orchestras will then combine for a performance of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. For more information, please click here and here.

Mr. Mitchell made a last-minute debut at Blossom with the orchestra last summer, leading a highly acclaimed program of Weber, Mozart, and Shostakovich. (See reviews here, here, and here.) This performance marks his officially scheduled debut with the orchestra at its summer home.

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Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra to receive its first-ever national broadcast

The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra will receive its first-ever national broadcast on The Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio on August 8, 2015. Brett Mitchell will lead the orchestra in John Adams's The Chairman Dances, Roy Harris's Symphony No. 3, and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Please check local listings for broadcast times in your region.

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Video: Brett Mitchell previews the SBSO's "On the Road Again"

Brett Mitchell spoke with Katie O'Mara on this morning's "Better Mid-Michigan" about the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra's upcoming subscription performance, "On the Road Again," featuring works of Wojciech Kilar, Mendelssohn, Ravel, and Beethoven. To watch, please click here.

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Brett Mitchell and The Cleveland Orchestra make critic's list of "Favorite Musical Events of 2014"

"Seen and Heard International" has heralded Brett Mitchell's last-minute substitution with The Cleveland Orchestra in July 2014 as one of their top musical events of 2014: "Cleveland Orchestra assistant conductor Brett Mitchell also augured well for the future with a first-class performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. Perhaps due to its familiarity, the piece is often given exaggerated performances or routine run-throughs, the one overstating the piece’s hidden messages, the other tossing it off as a noisy romp. Mitchell had its measure, catching details that almost every other conductor stomps over, yet doing so with emotion, life, and meaning." To read the complete article, please click here.

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Brett Mitchell and The Cleveland Orchestra make critic's list of "Favorite Musical Events of 2014"

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Review: "Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra rises to the occasion in challenging season opener"

The Plain Dealer has published a review of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's first subscription concert of the 2014-15 season. "Music director Brett Mitchell programmed intense and difficult works by John Adams, Roy Harris and Peter Tchaikovsky, and it is to the players' credit that they rose to the occasion, achieving a sort of victory over music that might have defeated a less talented ensemble.... Mitchell drove the ensemble relentlessly through the fiery passages, using body language as well as stick technique to encourage the players to meet and exceed the music's demands. In the more lyric passages, he held back and let the players inhabit the music's florid shape." To read the complete review, please click here.

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Review: "Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra at Severance Hall"

ClevelandClassical.com has published a review of the first subscription concert of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's 2014-15 season, praising music director Brett Mitchell's "well crafted choices for challenging the young musicians" that resulted in "a completely enjoyable evening of music." To read the complete review, please click here.

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Audio: COYO interview (2014-15 season opener)

Brett Mitchell joined host Bill O'Connell on WCLV this afternoon to discuss the first subscription concert of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's 2014-15 season, featuring works of John Adams, Roy Harris, and Tchaikovsky. To hear this interview, please click here.

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Preview: "Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's plans for new season include tour of China"

The Plain Dealer has published a preview of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's 2014-15 season, which marks Brett Mitchell's second year as Music Director. The season--which opens on Sunday with a program of Adams, Harris, and Tchaikovsky--will conclude with a four-city tour of China in June 2015, marking the ensemble's first performances in Asia. To read this article, please click here.

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Preview: "Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra opens its season on Sunday, November 23"

ClevelandClassical.com has published a preview of the first concert of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's 2014-15 season, Brett Mitchell's second as Music Director. The season, which culminates with a four-city tour of China in June 2015, will also feature several other high-profile events, including a special performance to open the League of American Orchestras' annual conference in May 2015 in Cleveland. To read this article, please click here.

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Preview: "Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra's season opener to feature former conductor Samuel Jones"

The Saginaw News has published a preview of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra's opening concert of the 2014-15 season, which marks the beginning of Brett Mitchell's fifth and final year as music director. Renowned composer Samuel Jones will return to Saginaw to attend a performance of his Elegy, a piece Jones himself premiered with the orchestra while serving as its fourth music director from 1962 to 1965. To read this article, please click here.

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Fall 2014 newsletter released

The Fall 2014 edition of Brett Mitchell's newsletter has been released. This edition highlights Mr. Mitchell's recent last-minute debut at the Blossom Music Festival with The Cleveland Orchestra, a return engagement with the Detroit Symphony, a debut with the Columbus Symphony, and details about his 2014-15 season with The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra. To read or subscribe, please click here.

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Return engagement with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

After a successful three-concert debut weekend with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in June 2014, Brett Mitchell has been engaged to return to the orchestra for an additional performance later this month. Mr. Mitchell will lead the DSO in works of Brahms, Mendelssohn, Bizet, and more at the Chrysler Headquarters and Technology Center on Tuesday, October 14, 2014. For more information, please visit the SCHEDULE page above.

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Interview during The Cleveland Orchestra's season-opening nationwide broadcast

Brett Mitchell will be host John Simna's guest for an interview during the intermission of The Cleveland Orchestra's first nationwide broadcast of the season. The orchestra's performance of works of Beethoven and Ravel this Saturday, October 4 at 8 p.m. Eastern will be broadcast live in Cleveland on WCLV 104.9 FM, and can be streamed worldwide at wclv.org.

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COYO's 2015 MLK concert announced

The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and music director Brett Mitchell will perform their annual free concert at Severance Hall on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, taking place this season on Monday, January 19, 2015. This year's repertoire includes works of Debussy, Ravel, Coleridge-Taylor, and Tchaikovsky. For more information, please click the "SCHEDULE" link above.

DEBUSSY - La mer: III. "Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea"
RAVEL - Une barque sur l'océan
TCHAIKOVSKY - Violin Concerto: III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo (Jieming Tang, violin)
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR - African Suite: "Danse nègre"
TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 4: IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco

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Preview: "Cleveland Orchestra lightens up with pops, family and holiday programs"

The Plain Dealer has released a preview of The Cleveland Orchestra's 2014-15 Youth Orchestra, family, and pops concert series, all three of which Brett Mitchell helps to lead this season. To read this article and learn more about these performances, please click here.

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Debut with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra

Brett Mitchell will make his debut with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra on April 16, 2015, leading a program of Jennifer Higdon's Peachtree Street, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, and the 1919 suite from Stravinsky's The Firebird. For more information, please click here.

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Brett Mitchell to play duo recital with Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Stephen Shipps

Brett Mitchell will play a duo recital with violinist Stephen Shipps, his concertmaster at the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra. The performance will take place at the Saginaw Club at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 23, and will feature works of Provost, Korngold, Suk, and Williams. For more information, please click the "SCHEDULE" page above.