PERFORMANCE CALENDAR
2025-26 se a son
O p e n ing We e ken d :
Val č uh a C on du c t s St r av ins k y ’s Fi r eb i r d
S ept emb er 1 9, 20* & 2 1
Eschenbach Conducts Mozart & Bruckner
S ept emb er 2 7 & 28*
K ing fo r a D ay : T h e M us i c of El v is
O c t o b er 3 , 4* & 5
Jea n -Yves T h ib au d et + T he T h r ee - C o rne r e d H at
O c t o b er 1 0, 11* & 12
G e r s hw in & G rim au d : Ja z z M e et s Symp ho ny
O c t o b er 17, 18* & 1 9
Fr o m St a g e t o S c r e e n : B r oad way Me et s H o ll y woo d
O c t o b er 3 1 , N ovemb er 1* & 2
Frig ht f ull y Fun! A H a ll owe e n C o n c e r t fo r K i ds
N ovemb er 1
Shall We Dance?
N ovemb er 8 & 9*
J o urn ey t o L ig ht : Va l č uh a C on du c t s
S h os t a kov i c h 1 0
N ovemb er 2 1 , 2 2 * & 23
Th a nk sg i v ing We e ken d :
Tcha ikovs k y ’s Pi an o C o n c e r t o N o. 1
N ovemb er 28 , 2 9* & 3 0
S H and e l s Mes si a h
D ec emb er 5 , 6* & 7
S J oy f ul Fa nfa r es! H o li d ay B r a s s S p ec t ac ul a r
D ec emb er 6 & 7
Ve r y M e rr y Po ps
D ec emb er 11 , 13* & 14
O h , W h at Fun! A H o li d ay C o n c e r t fo r K i ds
D ec emb er 13
Mariachi Sol De Mexico de José Hernández presents: José Hernández’ Merry-Achi Christmas
M a rin A ls o p C on du c t s B r a h ms 2
J a nu a r y 23 , 24* & 25
Pi an o M a n : T h e M us i c of B ill y J o e l
Febr u a r y 6 , 7 * & 8
W h e n Ins t rum e nt s Roa m e d t h e E a r t h
Febr u a r y 7
Sy m p hon ie e s p a g no le + Sy m p hon ie f a ntasti q ue
Febr u a r y 13 , 14* & 1 5
Tch a ikovs k y ’s Ro me o a n d J ul iet
Febr u a r y 20, 2 1* & 2 2
Wa g n e r ’s Tris ta n a n d Iso lde
Febr u a r y 28 & M a r c h 1
Mozart + Elgar’s Enigma Variations
M a r c h 13 , 14* & 1 5
B e et h ove n’s Fif t h Symp ho ny + T im pa n i Wo rl d Pr e m ie r e
M a r c h 20, 2 1* & 2 2
G ri eg ’s Pe e r G y nt
M a r c h 2 7, 28* & 2 9
S L a ng L a ng in Re c it a l A p ril 1
D isn ey s Fa nta s i a in C on c e r t
A p ril 3 & 4
S V í k ing ur Ó l af s s o n in Re c it a l
A p ril 17
A d a ms C on du c t s A d a ms & A p p a la c hi a n S p ri ng
A p ril 1 8 & 1 9*
I c o n : T h e Vo i c es Th at C h a nge d M us i c
A p ril 24 , 25* & 26
A b r ac ad a b r a! A Ma g i c a l M us i c a l A d ve nt ur e
A p ril 25
Dec emb er 15
S S Elf in C on c e r t
D ec emb er 1 9, 20 & 2 1
A N at K ing C o l e N ew Ye a r
J a nu a r y 2 , 3* & 4
S Sta r Wa r s: Retu rn of t he Je d i in C on c e r t
J a nu a r y 9 & 1 0
S Mr. Symphonic: Shaggy with the Houston Symphony
J a nu a r y 11
A r t ur o S and oval : J o urn ey t o Fr e edo m
J a nu a r y 17 & 1 8*
S Chanticleer: Our American Journey A p ril 28
J os h u a B e ll Ret urns : T he Ele me nt s in C on c e r t
M ay 7, 9* & 1 0
T he Pla net s + Tcha ikovs k y ’s V i o lin C o n c e r t o
M ay 1 5 , 1 6* & 17
Val č uh a C on du c t s M a hle r 9
M ay 2 2 , 23* & 24
L ig ht s! C am e r a! M us ic ! 1 0 0 Ye a r s of E p i c Film S c o r es M ay 2 9, 3 0* & 3 1
*Pe r fo rm a n c e live s t r ea m e d
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE™ IN CONCERT
Friday Saturday June 27 June 28 7:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Jones Hall Jones Hall
Sunday June 29 2:00 p.m. Jones Hall
Brett Mitchell , conductor
Program BIOGRAPHIES
BRETT MITCHELL, CONDUCTOR
Hailed for presenting engaging, in-depth explorations of thoughtfully curated programs, American conductor Brett Mitchell is in consistent demand on the podium at home and abroad. After a multiyear search, he was appointed Music Director of the Pasadena Symphony in April 2024. He has also served as Artistic Director and conductor of Oregon’s Sunriver Music Festival since 2022.
Working widely as a guest conductor, Mitchell has had guest engagements with many of this country’s most distinguished orchestras, including Cleveland, Houston, Detroit, National, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the Grant Park Festival Orchestra in downtown Chicago, with such celebrated soloists as Yo-Yo Ma and Renée Fleming.
From 2017 to 2021, Mitchell served as Music Director of the Colorado Symphony in Denver. During his five-season tenure, he is credited with deepening the orchestra’s engagement with its audience via in-depth demonstrations from both the podium and the piano. He expanded the orchestra’s commitment to contemporary American repertoire and spearheaded collaborations with many Denver community partners such as the Colorado Ballet and El Sistema Colorado.
From 2013 to 2017, Mitchell served on the conducting staff of The Cleveland Orchestra. He joined the orchestra as Assistant Conductor in 2013, and was promoted to Associate Conductor in 2015, becoming the first person to hold that title in more than three decades and only the fifth in the orchestra’s 100-year history. In these roles, he led the orchestra in several dozen concerts each season at Severance Hall, Blossom Music Center, and on tour.
From 2007 to 2011, Mitchell served as the Assistant Conductor of the Houston Symphony, leading more than 100 performances. He also held Assistant Conductor posts with the Orchestre National de France, where he worked under Kurt Masur, as well as with the Castleton Festival, where he worked under Lorin Maazel.
Born in Seattle in 1979, Mitchell holds degrees in conducting from the University of Texas at Austin and composition from Western Washington University.
He has scored some of the biggest movies in modern cinema history and his music has reached a global audience of over a billion people.
Born in Lanarkshire in 1953, Patrick’s journey to becoming one of the world’s most successful film composers began in 1975 when he graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly RSAMD), where he was made a fellow in 2001. He won an Ivor Novello award for his first film score, Henry V—directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh—and went on to compose for over 60 feature films, including global blockbusters Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Thor, Disney hits Brave and Cinderella, British classics Gosford Park, Sense and Sensibility, and Bridget Jones’s Diary, and recent favourite Murder on the Orient Express.
Patrick has collaborated with world-renowned film directors including Brian De Palma, Alfonso Cuaròn, Ang Lee, Robert Altman, Amma Asante, Regis Warnier and Mike Newell. Nominated for two Academy Awards, two Césars and two Golden Globes, Patrick received two lifetime achievement awards from The World Soundtrack Awards and BAFTA Scotland, the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award for “outstanding achievements and contributions to the world of film and television music” and the PRS Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Music.
Patrick is passionate about musical philanthropy. As a survivor of leukaemia, he has composed and performed for Blood Cancer UK fundraising concerts. He also supports several pioneering music education programmes in partnership with both the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as well as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
In 2023 Patrick was commissioned to compose ‘The Coronation March’ which was performed live as part of The Coronation of Their Majesties, The King and The Queen, at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6th of May 2023, to a global audience of hundreds of millions of viewers.
PATRICK DOYLE, COMPOSER
Program NOTES
CineConcerts is one of the leading producers of live music experiences performed with visual media, and is continuously redefining live entertainment. Founded by Producer/Conductor Justin Freer and Producer/ Writer Brady Beaubien, CineConcerts has engaged more than 1.3 million people worldwide in concert presentations in more than 900 performances in 48 countries working with some of the best orchestras and venues in the world, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, and many more. Recent and current live concert experiences include Rudy in Concert, The Harry Potter Film Concert Series, Gladiator Live, The Godfather Live, It’s a Wonderful Life in Concert, DreamWorks Animation In Concert, Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage 50th Anniversary Concert Tour, Breakfast at Tiffany’s in Concert, and A Christmas Dream Live.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireTM in Concert produced by CineConcerts
President/Founder/Producer, Justin Freer
Co-Founder/Producer, Brady Beaubien
Chief XR Officer/Head of Publicity and Communications, Andrew P. Alderete
Director of Operations, Andrew McIntyre
Senior Marketing Manager, Brittany Fonseca
Senior Social Media Manager, Si Peng
Worldwide Representation, WME Entertainment
Music Preparation, JoAnn Kane Music Service Sound Remixing, Justin Moshkevich, Igloo Music Studios
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRETM
Directed by Mike Newell
Produced by David Heyman
Written by Steve Kloves
Based on “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” by J.K. Rowling
Starring:
Daniel Radcliffe
Rupert Grint
Emma Watson
Gary Oldman
David Thewlis
Robbie Coltrane
Ralph Fiennes
Warwick Davis
Brendan Gleeson
Jason Isaacs
Michael Gambon
Timothy Spall
Alan Rickman
Frances de la Tour
Maggie Smith
Music by Patrick Doyle
Cinematography by Roger Pratt
Edited by Mick Audsley
Produced by Heyday Films, Patalex IV Productions
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures WIZARDING
ORCHESTRA ROSTER
Juraj Valčuha
Music Director
Roy and Lillie Cullen Chair
FIRST VIOLIN
Yoonshin Song, Concertmaster
Max Levine Chair
Vacant, Associate Concertmaster
Ellen E. Kelley Chair
Boson Mo, Assistant Concertmaster
Qi Ming, Assistant Concertmaster
Fondren Foundation Chair
Marina Brubaker
Tong Yan
MiHee Chung
Sophia Silivos
Rodica Gonzalez
Ferenc Illenyi
Si-Yang Lao
Kurt Johnson*
Christopher Neal
Sergei Galperin
Timothy Peters+
Tianxu Liu+
SECOND VIOLIN
Vacant, Principal
Vacant, Associate Principal
Amy Semes
Annie Kuan-Yu Chen
Mihaela Frusina
Jing Zheng
Tianjie Lu
Anastasia Iglesias
Tina Zhang*
Yankı Karataş
Hannah Duncan
Alexandros Sakarellos
Samuel Park+
Teresa Wang+
VIOLA
Joan DerHovsepian, Principal
Wei Jiang, Acting Associate Principal
Samuel Pedersen, Assistant Principal
Paul Aguilar
Sheldon Person
Fay Shapiro
Keoni Bolding
Jimmy Cunningham
Yvonne Smith+
CELLO
Brinton Averil Smith, Principal
Janice H. and Thomas D. Barrow Chair
Christopher French, Associate Principal
Jane and Robert Cizik Chair
Anthony Kitai
Louis-Marie Fardet
Jeffrey Butler
Maki Kubota
COMMUNITY-EMBEDDED MUSICIAN
Lindsey Baggett, Violin
ASSISTANT LIBRARIANS
Ali Verderber
Hae-a Lee
Xiao Wong
Charles Seo
Jeremy Kreutz
DOUBLE BASS
Robin Kesselman, Principal
Timothy Dilenschneider, Associate Principal
Steven Reineke, Principal POPS Conductor
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Conductor Laureate
Gonzalo Farias, Associate Conductor
Andrew Pedersen, Assistant Principal
Eric Larson
Burke Shaw
Donald Howey
Avery Weeks
Michael Zogaib+
FLUTE
Aralee Dorough, Principal
General Maurice Hirsch Chair
Matthew Roitstein, Associate Principal
Judy Dines
Kathryn Ladner
PICCOLO
Kathryn Ladner
OBOE
Jonathan Fischer, Principal
Lucy Binyon Stude Chair
Anne Leek, Associate Principal
Colin Gatwood
Adam Dinitz
ENGLISH HORN
Adam Dinitz
Barbara and Pat McCelvey Chair
CLARINET
Mark Nuccio, Principal
Bobbie Nau Chair
Vacant, Associate Principal
Christian Schubert
Alexander Potiomkin
Ben Freimuth+
E-FLAT CLARINET
Vacant
Ben Freimuth+
BASS CLARINET
Alexander Potiomkin
BASSOON
Rian Craypo, Principal
Isaac Schultz, Associate Principal
Elise Wagner
Adam Trussell
STAGE PERSONNEL
Stefan Stout, Stage Manager
José Rios, Assistant Stage Manager
Nicholas DiFonzo, Head Video Engineer
Justin Herriford, Head Audio Engineer
Connor Morrow, Head Stage Technician
Giancarlo Minotti, Audio Production Manager
CONTRABASSOON
Adam Trussell
HORN
William VerMeulen, Principal
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan
Endowed Chair
Robert Johnson, Associate Principal
Nathan Cloeter, Assistant Principal/Utility
Brian Thomas*
Brian Mangrum
Ian Mayton
Barbara J. Burger Chair
Spencer Bay+
TRUMPET
Mark Hughes, Principal
George P. and Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Chair
John Parker, Associate Principal
Robert Walp, Assistant Principal
Richard Harris
TROMBONE
Nick Platoff, Principal
Bradley White, Associate Principal
Phillip Freeman
BASS TROMBONE
Phillip Freeman
TUBA
Dave Kirk, Principal
TIMPANI
Leonardo Soto, Principal
Matthew Strauss, Associate Principal
PERCUSSION
Brian Del Signore, Principal
Mark Griffith
Matthew Strauss
HARP
Allegra Lilly, Principal
KEYBOARD
Vacant, Principal
LIBRARIAN
Luke Bryson, Principal
*on leave + contracted substitute
