Listen to an excerpt from Symphony No. 3
‘Organ’: Maestoso – Allegro

About Leonard Slatkin

Internationally renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin began his tenure as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the 2008-2009 season. He was named music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon in its 2011–2012 season. Additionally, he became principal guest conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2008-2009. He completed his twelfth and final season as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, in June 2008, and finished his three-year commitment as music advisor to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in June 2009. Slatkin continues as principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

"Slatkin is brilliant not only as a conductor but as an educator as well." - The Washington Post
"Leonard Slatkin is a master when it comes to [creating] a real musical atmosphere." - Pizzicato

About Vincent Warnier

Winner of the Grand Prix for performance at the 1992 Chartres International Organ Competition, Vincent Warnier is resident organist at the Église Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris (a post he inherited from Maurice Duruflé) and at Notre-Dame cathedral at Verdun. In September 2013 he also began a two-season residency at the Lyon Auditorium. His career has taken him in recent years to such musical centres as Amsterdam, Lucerne, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin and Budapest. Vincent Warnier studied in Strasbourg and then at the Paris Conservatoire, and was taught by André Stricker, Daniel Roth, Michel Chapuis, Olivier Latry and Marie-Claire Alain. He completed his musicology studies at the Sorbonne by gaining the highest teaching qualification in the French system.

About the Orchestre National de Lyon

Offspring of the Société des Grands Concerts de Lyon, founded in 1905, the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL) became a permanent orchestra with 102 musicians in 1969, with Louis Frémaux as its first musical director (1969– 1971). From then on the orchestra was run and supported financially by the city of Lyon, which in 1975 provided it with a concert hall, the Lyon Auditorium. Since the Opéra de Lyon Orchestra was founded in 1983, the ONL has devoted itself to symphonic repertoire. Taking over from Louis Frémaux in 1971, Serge Baudo was in charge of the orchestra until 1986 and made it a musical force to be reckoned with far beyond its home region. Under the leadership of Emmanuel Krivine (1987–2000) and David Robertson (2000–2004), the ONL continued to increase in artistic stature and to receive international critical acclaim. Jun Mãrkl took over from him in September 2005 as musical director of the ONL. Leonard Slatkin has been musical director since September 2011.