Meet Alexander Mickelthwate: Conducts RI Philharmonic season finale 1812 Overture, May 3-4

The RI Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert includes

Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, May 3-4

The TACO Classical Series concert is on Saturday, May 4, at 8 p.m.
The Open Rehearsal is on Friday, May 3, at 6:30 p.m.

For the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra’s season finale, the Orchestra welcomes conductor Alexander Mickelthwate to The VETS for Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony with Benjamin Beilman performing Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto.

"His (Mr. Mickelthwate’s) interpretation of Bruckner’s Symphony No.7 prompted pianist Anton Kuerti to write a letter to the newspaper saying, “I would like to call attention to the stunning performance heard after the intermission. To play Bruckner’s Symphony No.7 with the passion, profundity, emotional intensity, subtlety and degree of perfection achieved by conductor Alexander Mickelthwate and the Winnipeg Symphony can only be called miraculous.”

Alexander Mickelthwate
CONDUCTOR



• Newly appointed Music Director of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and Music Director Emeritus of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
• Started his career in North America as Assistant Conductor for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and then associate conductor of the L.A. Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen.
• Guest conducted the New York and Rochester philharmonics, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the Chicago, Seattle, Houston, Vancouver, Milwaukee and Toronto symphonies.
• Made his European debut in 2006 with the Hamburg Symphony, and conducted the Stuttgart Radio and Royal Scottish National orchestras, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and NDR Hannover.
• In South America, he conducted Sao Paulo Symphony and Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.
• Made his Australian debut with the Adelaide and Tasmanian symphony orchestras where he recorded the Mozart piano concerti Nos.7 and 10 with the Silver-Garburg Piano Duo. He has conducted two world premieres of percussion concerti by Vincent Ho with Dame Evelyn Glennie.
• Rooted in his German heritage, Mr. Mickelthwate began his tenure in Winnipeg with an inventive Beethoven cycle, pairing these great symphonies with other revolutionary compositions.
• Contributed to the critically acclaimed Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Indigenous Festival. Passionate to connect with all cultures, he created artistic collaborations between the First Nations and Western cultures that culminated in the performances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Revueltas’ Les Noches de los Mayas with new choreographies of contemporary and First Nations dance.
• Broadened the repertoire of Winnipeg New Music Festival, an international institution, by forming new collaborations and connecting with different audiences.
• Born and raised in Frankfurt, Germany, he hails from a musical family. He received his degree from the Peabody Institute of Music and studied conducting under Frederik Prausnitz and Gustav Meier as well as with Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Daniel Barenboim and Robert Spano at Tanglewood.

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