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Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, where an to 2017 was highly praised, and included a four-city
increased focus on locally relevant programming tour of China in June 2015, marking the orchestra’s
and community collaborations resulted in record second international tour and its first to Asia.
attendance throughout his tenure. Mr. Mitchell is regularly invited to work with the
As an opera conductor, Mr. Mitchell has served talented young musicians at this country’s high-level
as music director of nearly a dozen productions, training programs, such as the Cleveland Institute
principally at his former post as Music Director of Music, the National Repertory Orchestra,
of the Moores Opera Center in Houston, where Texas Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival,
he led eight productions from 2010 to 2013. His and Interlochen Center for the Arts. He has also
repertoire spans the core works of Mozart (The served on the faculties of the schools of music at
Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute), Verdi Northern Illinois University (2005-07), the University
(Rigoletto and Falstaff), and Stravinsky (The Rake’s of Houston (2012-13), and the University of Denver
Progress) to contemporary works by Mark Adamo (2019, 2022-23).
(Little Women), Robert Aldridge (Elmer Gantry), Born in Seattle in 1979, Mr. Mitchell holds
Daniel Catán (Il Postino and Salsipuedes), and Daron degrees in conducting from the University of
Hagen (Amelia). As a ballet conductor, Mr. Mitchell Texas at Austin and composition from Western
most recently led a production of The Nutcracker Washington University, which selected him as its
with the Pennsylvania Ballet in collaboration Young Alumnus of the Year in 2014. He also studied
with The Cleveland Orchestra during the 2016-17 with Leonard Slatkin at the National Conducting
season. Institute, and was selected by Kurt Masur as a
In addition to his work with professional recipient of the inaugural American Friends of
orchestras, Mr. Mitchell is also well known for his the Mendelssohn Foundation Scholarship in
affinity for working with and mentoring young 2008. Mr. Mitchell was also one of five recipients
musicians aspiring to be professional orchestral of the League of American Orchestras’ American
players. His tenure as Music Director of the Conducting Fellowship from 2007 to 2010.
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra from 2013 brettmitchellconductor.com

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