Brian McCreath
Director of ProductionBrian McCreath produces and hosts CRB's Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcasts from Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, Executive Produces WCRB In Concert, and produces and hosts The Bach Hour. As Director of Production, he also oversees GBH Music productions from the Fraser Performance Studio and digital content on CRB's website. He came to WGBH in 2004 as a digital content producer, later adding on the role of Production Assistant for classical music, and then producing and hosting GBH's weekend morning classical program for five years. Brian has also hosted live broadcasts and video streams from GBH's Fraser Performance Studio, live broadcasts of the Handel and Haydn Society from Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall, and live broadcasts from Rockport Music's Shalin Liu Performance Center and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Calderwood Hall. He has also hosted three GBH classical music Learning Tours to Germany, Central Europe, and Switzerland. Prior to his work at GBH, Brian was the Principal Trumpet of the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, a member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and Assistant Principal Trumpet of the Symphony Orchestra of the State of Mexico. He began his radio career as a Production Assistant at Wisconsin Public Radio. He holds degrees in Trumpet Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and The College of Wooster.
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced its plans for its first full summer season in the Berkshires since 2019, featuring new works, new artists, and one very big birthday party.
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Violinist Gil Shaham reveals deeply embedded musical and narrative connections between two foundational concertos.One of them, the singular Violin…
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The appointment, to begin with the 2021-2022 season, brings together an international conductor with local roots and one of this areas's most dynamic…
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer performs his own music as well as that of Florence Price and Franz Schubert, with violinist Wendy Putnam, in a Concord…
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Conversations with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Artistic Partner, Thomas Adès, highlight a collaboration that embodies the phrase “a sum greater than…
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced that Gail Samuel will succeed Mark Volpe as the organization's President and CEO, effective in June.As the…
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Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Andris Nelsons describes the three online performances he conducts, each of them featuring Beethoven symphonies,…
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Author Matthew Guerrieri pulls at the threads that make the opening sounds of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony a cultural force through the course of…
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Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra have announced an extension of their collaboration and an expansion of projects that have made this one…
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A pianist known for artistic integrity, limitless determination, and rigorous mentorship talked with me at Tanglewood when he played there with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the last time.