BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 4 Friday, May 14, 2021 This performance is being filmed and recorded for a future streaming concert. Meymandi Concert Hall Woolner Stage
Raleigh Brett Mitchell, conductor
STREAMING CONCERT SPONSORED BY
Joan Tower (b. 1938)
DIGITAL INITIATIVES SUPPORTER
Chamber Dance
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60 (1770-1827) I. Adagio – Allegro vivace II. Adagio III. Allegro vivace IV. Allegro ma non troppo
ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR Brett Mitchell, conductor Brett Mitchell’s 2020/21 season features debuts with the North Carolina and Fort Worth symphonies. Guest engagements in prior seasons include the Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, National, Oregon, San Antonio, San Francisco, and Vancouver symphonies; the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; the Minnesota Orchestra; and a two-week tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Brett has served as Music Director of the Colorado Symphony since the 2017/18 season, and served as Music Director Designate during the 2016/17 season. During his five-season tenure, ending this summer, he has increased the orchestra’s engagement with its audience by offering in-depth demonstrations from both the podium and the piano, and has led the orchestra in world premieres, recording projects, and commissions. 1 • NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY
From 2013 to 2017, Brett served The Cleveland Orchestra as Assistant Conductor (2013-2015), Associate Conductor (2015-2017), and Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (2013-2017). He has also held Assistant Conductor posts with the Houston Symphony, Orchestre National de France, and the Castleton Festival. In 2015, he completed a five-year appointment as Music Director of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra. He has also served on the faculties of Northern Illinois University, the University of Houston, and the University of Denver. Born in Seattle in 1979, Brett holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and Western Washington University, and has studied at the National Conducting Institute. He was a recipient of the inaugural American Friends of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation Scholarship in 2008 and one of five recipients of the League of American Orchestras’ American Conducting Fellowship from 2007 to 2010.