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LEONARD SLATKIN is a big jazz fan. But he was unprepared for what unfolded when, after performing as guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center one spring night in 1995, he decided to catch the pianist Michel Camilos show at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village.

I really hadnt heard piano playing that ferociously virtuosic in a club like that, Mr. Slatkin said in a recent interview. At the same time, the sensitivity he brought to the ballads was just extraordinary.

So impressed was Mr. Slatkin that he immediately commissioned a piece from Mr. Camilo. That piece became Mr. Camilos first piano concerto, which has been performed 57 times since its premiere with the National Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Slatkin at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1998. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, for which Mr. Camilo has begun a two-year residency as jazz creative director, performed the piece four times in November.

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