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Detroit Symphony Orchestra

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO[1]) is an American orchestra based in Detroit, Michigan. Its primary performance venue is Orchestra Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit's Midtown neighborhood. Jader Bignamini is the current music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with Jeff Tyzik as Principal Pops Conductor, Enrico Lopez-Yañez as Principal Pops Conductor Designate,[2] and Na'Zir McFadden as assistant conductor. Leonard Slatkin, the previous music director, is the orchestra's current music director laureate. Neeme Järvi, music director from 1990 to 2005, is the orchestra's current music director emeritus.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO)

1887

Weston Gales (1914–1917)

(1918–1936)

Ossip Gabrilowitsch

(1936–1940)

Franco Ghione

(1940–1942)

Victor Kolar

Karl Krueger (1944–1949)

(1951–1962)

Paul Paray

(1963–1973)

Sixten Ehrling

(1973–1977)

Aldo Ceccato

(1977–1981)

Antal Doráti

(1984–1990)

Günther Herbig

(1990–2005)

Neeme Järvi

(2008–2018)

Leonard Slatkin

(2020–present)

Jader Bignamini

Orchestra Hall, Detroit

(the orchestra's principal violist emeritus)

Alexander Mishnaevski

(the orchestra's former principal cellist)

Robert deMaine

(the orchestra's principal bassoonist)

Robert S. Williams

List of symphony orchestras

Gavrilovich, Peter and Bill McGraw. The Detroit Almanac, Detroit Free Press (2000,  0-937247-34-0).

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Heiles, Ann Mischakoff, America's Concertmasters (Detroit Monographs in Musicology). Harmonie Park (2007,  0-89990-139-5).

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Woodford, Arthur M., This is Detroit 1701–2001. Wayne State University Press (2001,  0-8143-2914-4).

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Official website of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra