Founded in 1999, this Institute is unique in combining leadership, administrative, and musical training with a major orchestra. Created by Leonard Slatkin, the project is designed to help conductors successfully make the transition from leading student or part-time orchestras to working with a full-time professional orchestra. “The institute…is that rare program that offers more than its name might promise.”
-- The New York Times
2004 - Washingtonian of the Year
2003 - National Medal of the Arts from US President
2003 - Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Maryland
2003 - Levine School Silver Anniversary Award
2003 - Longy School of Music's Bernstein Award
2002 - American Classical Music Hall of Fame
2002 - Thomas Jefferson Award for Services to French-American Relations
2001 ASCAP Concert Music Award for Career Long Advocacy of the
Music of Our Time
2001 - State of Oklahoma Arts Medallion
2000 - NMC American Eagle Award for Service to American Music
2000 - George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Service to American Music
1997 - Grammy Nomination for Best Soloist with Orchestra (Schwantner Album)
1997 - ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming (Major Orchestra)
1996 - Grammy for Best Classical Recording (Corigliano Album)
2003 - PBS Broadcast of Tribute to Richard Rodgers
2002 - Concert for America, commemorating the events of 9/11/01,
broadcast on NBC
2001 -13 Weeks of Nationally Broadcast Concerts (Leonard Slatkin is also host and commentator.)
2001 - Concert for America, honoring the families of the victims of the Pentagon attack on 9-11
2000 - National Telecast, July 4 Concert at Capitol
1999 - Six weeks of broadcast concerts WETA-FM
1997 - 13 Weeks of Nationally Broadcast Concerts over National Public Radio
(including innovative intermission feature: talking about music with a general reporter, Susan Stamberg, rather than a musician)
Corigliano, John
Of Rage and Remembrance. Michelle DeYoung, mezzo soprano. Oratorio
Society of Washington. Choral Arts Society of Washington. Leonard Slatkin.
RCA Red Seal 09026-68450-2. 1996. [1996 Grammy, Best Classical Recording]
Symphony No. 1. RCA Red Seal 09026-68450-2. 1996. [1996 Grammy, Best Classical Recording]
Kamen, Michael
The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms. Decca 289 467 631-2
Prokofiev, Sergei
For the Love of Three Oranges, Suite. Leonard Slatkin.
RCA Red Seal. 9026-68801 2
Symphony No. 6 ,Op. 111. Leonard Slatkin. RCA Red Seal. 9026-68801-2
Schwantner, Joseph
New Morning for the World. Vernon Jordan. Leonard Slatkin.
RCA Red Seal 09026-68692-2.
Percussion Concerto. Evelyn Glennie. Leonard Slatkin. RCA Red Seal 09026-
68692-2. [1997 Grammy nomination, Best Instrumental Soloist with Orchestra]
In keeping with his commitment to education, Leonard Slatkin has participated in a wide range of education activities, both performance and other events.
They include:
• Young People's Concerts (10) for approximately 20,000 students
• Family Concerts
• Meet the Orchestra performances
• Matinee Luncheon Pre-Concert Lecture
• Dinner Pre-Concert Lecture
• Conversations with Conductors
• Pre-Concert talks from the stage
• Meeting with Youth Fellows (NSO training program for area high school students)
• Residency Activities
5 sectionals with Arizona youth orchestras
2 conductor workshops in Alabama
Youth Concerts in Arizona
Workshops with student orchestras/ensembles in Mississippi
Conductor workshop in Mississippi
Rehearsals with 2 youth orchestras in Vermont
Conductor workshop in Oklahoma
Conductor workshop in South Dakota
Rehearsal with Northern State University Band (South Dakota)
Rehearsal with Northern State University Orchestra and Chorus (South Dakota)
Session with student conductors at North Dakota State University
Session with wind ensemble at University of North Dakota
Working Rehearsal with University of Tennessee Orchestra
Session with University of Tennessee Conducting Students
Arts Advocacy Speech to Knoxville Symphony Board of Directors
Arts Advocacy Speech to Chamber of Commerce in Jackson, Tennessee
With the 1997-1998 season Mr. Slatkin introduced a different format to the National
Symphony Orchestra subscription season, interspersing the concert weeks with
festivals emphasizing a specific composer, nation, era of music history, or
instrument.
Among the most extraordinary have been:
2004 - Festival of France
2003 - Soundtracks: Music and Film
2002 - Journey to America: A Musical Immigration
2001- British Festival
2000 - Beethoven Festival featuring Gustav Mahler's Retuschen Piano
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2004: US Tour (East Coast)
2002: European Tour
1999: Asian Tour
1999: US Tour
1997: European Tour
1997: US Tour
2004: Tennessee
2003: North Dakota
2002: South Dakota
2001: Oklahoma
2000: Vermont
1999: Mississippi
1998: Alabama
1997: Arizona
1996: Montana/Wyoming
1995: Maine
• Cycle of Fanfares
Roberto Sierra, Saludo*
David Sampson, Hommage JFK*
Bruce Adolphe, Wind Teaser*
Robert Rodriguez, Fanfare for Four
Trumpets and Four Conch Shells*
Augusta Read Thomas, Manifesto*
Ron Nelson, Fanfare for
the Kennedy Center*
Jeffrey Mumford, within a cloudburst of echoing brightness*
Samuel Adler, A Festive Proclamation*
David Winkler, Fanfare for
World Peace*
Judith Shatin, Hearing the Call*
Michelle Ekizian Slow Apocalypse*
Christopher Theofanidis, Metaphysica*
George Tsontakis, Perpetual Angelus*
Truman Harris, Prelude*
Paul Epstein, Fanfare*
Stephen Dankner, Fanfare*
Brent Michael Davids,
Canyon Sunrise*
William Komaiko, Oléo*
Libby Larsen, Strum*
Robert Moran , Obrigado*
Anne LeBaron, American Icons*
Jonathan Bailey Holland, Signals*
Kevin Putz, Continuo*
Andreas Makris, JFK Commemorative*
• Stephen Hartke, Ascent of the Equestrian in a Balloon*
• Claude Baker, Into the Sun
• Peter Schickele, Songlines*
• Ron Nelson, Panels (Epiphanies II)*
• John Corigliano, DC Fanfare
• William Bolcom, Sixth Symphony*
• Michael Daugherty, UFO*
• John Corigliano, A Dylan
Thomas Trilogy*
• Leonard Slatkin, House Warming
• Michael Kamen, The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms*
• Richard Danielpour, Voices of Remembrance *
• Michel Camilo, Tango for Ten*
• Roberto Sierra, Fandangos*
• Joan Tower, Strike Zones*
• George Tsontakis, Miraloghia*
• Paquito D'Rivera Gran Danzon
• Richard Danielpour Piano Concerto No. 3 ( Zodiac Variations)
• Robert Mintzer Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra
• Cycle of Encores
Roberto Sierra, Un recuerdo *
Jefferson Friedman, March *
Michael Abels, Tribute *
Tina Davidson, Beyond the
Blue Horizon *
Daniel Ott, Firebrand *
Derek Bermel The Ends *
Steven Burke Dance Craze *
Jennifer Higdon Machine *
Martin Bresnick Encore! *
Vineet Shende Razzle *
Daron Hagen Sussurus*
John Sichel, Francesca da Bimini*
Steven Stucky, Jeu de timbres*
David Teie, Fuga Eroica*
Leonard Slatkin, Fin*
• Einojuhani Rautavaara
Clarinet Concerto
• Cindy McTee Symphony No. 1: Ballet for Orchestra*
• Jeffrey Mumford amid the light of quickening memory *
• Stephen Jaffe Cello Concerto*
• Stewart Wallace Skvera, Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra
*Commissioned by the NSO and
made possible by the John and June Hechinger Commissioning Fund
for New Orchestral Works |
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts