Detroit Symphony Orchestra – Past Concerts

Aram Khachaturian — "Adagio" from Spartacus
Arturo Márquez — Danzón No. 2
Arturo Márquez — Fandango
Igor Stravinsky — The Firebird Suite

Aram Khachaturian — "Adagio" from Spartacus
Arturo Márquez — Danzón No. 2
Arturo Márquez — Fandango
Igor Stravinsky — The Firebird Suite

Aram Khachaturian — "Adagio" from Spartacus
Arturo Márquez — Danzón No. 2
Arturo Márquez — Fandango
Igor Stravinsky — The Firebird Suite

Audience favorite Byron Stripling joins Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik in a “tour de force” program showcasing the music of George Gershwin, ragtime masters Scott Joplin & Jelly Roll Morton, & more!

Audience favorite Byron Stripling joins Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik in a “tour de force” program showcasing the music of George Gershwin, ragtime masters Scott Joplin & Jelly Roll Morton, & more!

Written in a fever of productivity at the height of his career, W.A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 exudes the richness & majesty of the composer at his best.

Franz Schubert – Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D. 485
Toshio Hosokawa – Stilles Meer ("Silent Sea")

Jader Bignamini welcomes pianist Orli Shaham to join the DSO for a performance of L.v. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on a program including a new work by acclaimed composer/violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain.

Craving something Scotch? Get your fix as DSO performs Felix Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony No. 3.

Join the DSO on a musical adventure with Peter & his animal friends in Sergei Prokofiev’s timeless classic, Peter and the Wolf.

Rock vocalist Brody Dolyniuk channels the distinct vocals of Freddy Mercury for a "Bohemian Rhapsody” of hit after chart-smashing hit along with the DSO & a full rock band.

Fond of Franz? DSO has you covered, with 2 overtures "In the Italian Style" by Franz Schubert, & Franz Joseph Haydn's final "London" Symphony.

Members of the DSO’s winds & brass perform works for woodwind quintet featuring Samuel Barber’s Summer Music & Jeff Scott’s Startin’ Sumthin’.

Pianist Shai Wosner joins musicians of the DSO in an intimate chamber setting for 2 works by Antonin Dvořák:Legends, for piano duet, & his Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major.

DSO performs the Symphony No. 2 In D major by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges – the first known classical composer of African ancestry.

The Detroit Symphony performs Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony in C minor – written out of personal crisis as the composer reluctantly joined the Communist Party.

DSO Music Director Laureate Leonard Slatkin returns to lead the DSO in a program of folk-infused works by William Grant Still & Alberto Ginastera.

Leonard Slatkin leads the DSO in a program of twentieth-century American & British composers.

Composer Tania León draws upon her ancestry mixed in French, Spanish, Chinese, African, & Cuban musical heritages in her work Indigena. Baiba Skride performs W.A. Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 1.

Roberto Sierra – Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (world premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 "Jupiter"