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OrchestraNews Brett Mitchell joins Orchestra as assistant conductor and music director of Youth Orchestra With the start of the 2013-14 season, The Cleveland Orchestra welcomes new assistant conductor Brett Mitchell. As assistant conductor, he serves as cover conductor for Severance Hall and Blossom Music Festival subscription concerts, and provides assistance to music director Franz Welser-Möst. He is also serving as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. Mitchell holds the Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Assistant Conductor Endowed Chair. In addition to his appointment in Cleveland, Brett Mitchell is currently in his fourth season as music director of Michigan’s Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra. He has guest conducted widely and served as assistant conductor of the Houston Symphony (2007-11), where he concurrently held a League of American Orchestras American Conducting Fellowship. Since that
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time, he has returned to lead that orchestra regularly as a guest conductor. He was also an assistant conductor to Kurt Masur at the Orchestre National de France (2006-09). A native of Seattle, Brett Mitchell holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was also music director of the University Orchestra. He earned a bachelor of music degree in composition from Western Washington University. A complete biography can be read at clevelandorchestra.com.
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