Conductor Brett Mitchell is the next music director of the Colorado Symphony. The orchestra announced on Sept. 12 that the 37-year-old conductor will take over in 2017 -- though he’ll lead five concerts at Boettcher Concert Hall this season.

The Colorado Symphony kicks off its 2016-17 season tonight, and for the first time in 26 years it has a surplus and serious money in the bank as well as a new music director on tap to join the orchestra next year

Nearly than two thousand people came out to the Boettcher Concert Hall to enjoy “El Latir de Mexico” celebrating the 206th anniversary of the Independence of Mexico.

Maybe it’s a bit of a late bloomer, but the Colorado Symphony has finally ended a fiscal year with a real budget surplus. Not only does it have $1.7 million in the bank, but it has accumulated a number of commitments toward a permanent endowment, the goal of which is $50 million. 

Nothing underscores the Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s current approach to the business of making music more clearly than the appointment of Brett Mitchell as its new music director.