Festival Finale: Mendelssohn Italian Conductorless
Music to celebrate the Kane Mountain Fire Tower Centennial featuring a full symphony orchestra alongside guest violinist Jeremy Kittel.
See other Kane Mountain Fire Tower Centennial Events. Conductorless Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, Kittel’s Stones River Concerto, and more!
Get tickets: $20 General Admission
Free general admission for students 17 and under!
Caroga Arts offers FREE admission to concert goers 17 and under for all Caroga Arts presented concerts at Sherman’s.
Sponsor: The Daily Gazette
Vendor: Stump City Brewing
Jeremy Kittel is an American violinist, fiddler, and composer. He received a Grammy nomination for “Best Instrumental Composition” in 2019 alongside John Williams and Terence Blanchard. Fluent in multiple musical genres, he composes original music that draws from a wide variety of influences including folk, jazz, Celtic, Classical, electronic, and more.
Kittel performs with his group Kittel & Co., as a soloist with orchestras, and in collaborative and supporting roles with many of today’s leading artists. In demand as a composer and arranger, he has worked with Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck, My Morning Jacket, Aoife O’Donovan, Theo Katzman, Jars of Clay, Yo-Yo Ma, and the Silk Road Ensemble, Jon Batiste, Laura Veirs, Sara Watkins, and the Grammy-winning Turtle Island Quartet (of which he was a member for five years). He has also recorded with artists such as Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Fleet Foxes, and Esperanza Spalding.
Stones River Concerto:
Stones River, a new orchestral composition by Grammy-nominated composer Jeremy Kittel, is called “hauntingly beautiful… a moving and uniquely American composition” (Orlando Sentinel). Kittel was first approached by rising star conductor Eric Jacobsen at the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra to compose the piece, which draws from the deep well of multicultural American Revolutionary and Civil War era music.In February 2020, Stones River was premiered by the Orlando Philharmonic with Jeremy as soloist in a highly successful debut. “The concerto for orchestra and solo fiddle evokes a sense of nostalgia with a modern edge…. Powerful…” (Orlando Sentinel). After the debut performance, Eric, Jeremy and the Philharmonic were inspired to record Stones River and other compositions for a new collaborative album released in early 2025.
