Nov. 16
Nosferatu: Silent Film with Live Organ
About This Concert
We’re turning back the clock on the 2024 hit remake, to the remarkable silent-era classic that started it all. Called the original vampire movie, Nosferatu (1922) is one of the most chilling and influential horror movies of all time. For one performance only, experience this creepy classic on a giant screen exactly as audiences did when it was originally released, as organist Brett Miller performs a spinetingling original soundtrack, live with the movie.
Performance does not include the Houston Symphony
Program
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Tickets
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Sunday, Nov. 16
3:00 P.M. at Jones Hall
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Special Packages
💎 Diamond Zone Tickets
Enjoy the best view in the house from the center of the Grand Tier, plus exclusive access to the David and Shirley Toomin Family Green Room with complimentary beverages before the show.
The Diamond Package also includes:
- A commemorative show poster signed by organist Brett Miller
- A Nosferatu enamel pin keepsake
- All Diamond Zone buyers will be entered into a drawing for a $50 gift card to the historic River Oaks Theatre
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Artists

Brett Miller
organist
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Sponsors
Concert Sponsor and Lead Gala Underwriter
The Cullen Foundation Maestro's Fund
Grand Guarantor
Video enhancement of Houston Symphony concerts is made possible by the Albert & Ethel Herzstein Foundation through a special gift celebrating the foundation's 50th anniversary in 2015
Extras
Additional Information
Doors Open:
60 mins. pre-concert
Prelude:
No Prelude
Duration
Approx. 120 mins
Intermission
20 mins.
Age Limit
Age 6+
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conductor
Christian Reif
Chief Conductor of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, Christian Reif has established a reputation for his natural musicality, innovative programming, and technical command.
Since 2022, Reif has served as Music Director of the Lakes Area Music Festival, a month-long summer festival in Minnesota featuring the nation’s top classical performers in programming that ranges from opera and chamber music to symphonic performances along with commissioned new works. LAMF believes that high quality arts experiences should be accessible to all and operates on a name-your-price ticket model.
Highlights of Reif’s 2025–26 Season include debut performances with the Nashville Symphony, The Florida Orchestra, Danish Chamber Orchestra, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, and Australian Youth Orchestra. He returns to conduct the Houston Symphony; National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada; Netherlands Radio Philharmonic; Belgrade Philharmonic; and National Radio Orchestra of Romania.
In 2024, Reif won a Grammy Award for the Nonesuch Records album Walking in the Dark, the debut solo album of classical singer Julia Bullock in which he accompanied her on piano and led London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. The album was praised by Gramophone Magazine as “illuminating” and described Reif as providing “excellent support” for Bullock. In 2020 during the pandemic, Reif and Bullock recorded a series of at-home virtual “Songs of Comfort,” ranging from Carole King’s classic “Up on the Roof” to Schubert’s “Wanderers Nachtlied.” NPR Music featured the duo in a Tiny Desk Concert for their special quarantine edition of the series, and The New York Times highlighted them on their Best Classical Music of 2020 list.
From 2016 to 2019, Christian was Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, after being the Conducting Fellow at the New World Symphony from 2014 to 2016 and at Tanglewood Music Center in 2015 and 2016.

Brett Miller
organist
As one of the youngest in a rare art form, Brett Miller is an active organist, conductor, and arranger specializing in silent film accompaniment. Currently, he is the Assistant conductor of the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra and the Eastman Philharmonia.
In the Spring of 2021, he was appointed Music Director of the Empire Film and Media Ensemble, an ensemble based in Rochester, NY, that advocates for the education, performance, and production of film music. In the Fall of 2022, he was appointed Artistic Director of the organization. Brett shares a close relationship between the ensemble and the Beal Institute of Film and Contemporary Media at the Eastman School of Music.
His recent scores have been recorded with organizations such as the Eye Filmmuseum, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation, and Kino Lober Classics. He has been featured in the past at various film festivals and has played events in conjunction with film preservationists from the Library of Congress and George Eastman House. Highlights include sold-out performances of Nosferatu at Verizon Hall in conjunction with the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Boston Pops, and Houston Symphony. He is a frequent recitalist at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, playing the world’s largest pipe organ.
Brett studied organ with renowned organist Jelani Eddington and piano with Beth Crompton. He studied film accompaniment with Ben Model and Bernie Anderson. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting at the Eastman School of Music where he studies with Neil Varon.