May 4, 2016

Nigel Kennedy returns to the United States following an 18-year absence to perform exclusively with Maestro Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The program includes Schumann’s Manfred Overture and William Schuman’s third symphony, followed by Kennedy’s original Dedications series.

April 26, 2016

Leonard Slatkin will be presented with an honorary doctorate from the New England Conservatory in Boston and will be the 2016 commencement speaker at a degree ceremony taking place at the college on Sunday, May 22.

April 8, 2016

Naxos has released the next installment in the Orchestre National de Lyon’s recording cycle of the works of Maurice Ravel. This disc highlights the composer’s incomparable skill in orchestrating such pieces as Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

April 5, 2016 |

On September 1, 2017, Leonard Slatkin will become Honorary Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon. He will continue regular collaborations with the musicians of the orchestra for at least three additional seasons.

March 3, 2016

Maestro Slatkin spent a week in Fort Worth getting better acquainted with the orchestra in advance of the 2017 Cliburn Competition.

February 18, 2016

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra announced that they will perform Leonard Slatkin’s composition Kinah on April 20 and April 22, 2017. Conductor Ward Stare will conduct the RPO in a program that opens with Slatkin’s elegy to his parents and closes with Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.

February 13, 2016

The Orchestre National de Lyon released its recording of Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole and Don Quichotte á Dulcinée on the Naxos label.

February 1, 2016

Join the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for the 2016-17 Classical season, a survey of music demonstrating how American culture has influenced composers around the world.

January 30, 2016

Experience four symphonies, two piano concerti, two serenades, and much more in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s three-week Brahms Festival Celebration, February 11-28, 2016.

December 8, 2016

Maestro Slatkin spoke with Susan Whitall of The Detroit News about his family connections to Frank Sinatra, sharing his personal reflections for her article “Remembering Frank Sinatra, ‘The Voice,’ on His Birthday.”