Daniel Slatkin

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Daniel Alexander Slatkin (born May 16, 1994) is an American composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and music producer known for his concert works, film scores, and television scores.{{Cite web |last=McCollum |first=Brian |title=Son of DSO's Leonard Slatkin composed score for new Detroit bankruptcy documentary |url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2022/04/27/daniel-slatkin-score-detroit-bankruptcy-documentary/7409084001/ |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=Detroit Free Press |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Post-Dispatch |first=Daniel Durchholz Special to the |title=Maestro's musings: Slatkin's new book takes hard look at classical music industry |url=https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/maestros-musings-slatkins-new-book-takes-hard-look-at-classical-music-industry/article_d3b483d0-62a2-56f1-88d6-506973c79305.html |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=STLtoday.com |date=10 September 2021 |language=en}} At the age of 23, Slatkin's feature film debut was premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre,{{Cite web |date=December 18, 2017 |title=World Premiere of 'Making Fun - the Story of Funko' on Jan. 22 at Tcl Chinese Theatre! |website=funko.com |url=https://www.funko.com/blog/article/world-premiere-making-fun |access-date=2022-03-06 }} and five months later had his symphony orchestra debut with a concert work commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.{{Cite web |title=MSM trustee Leonard Slatkin (HonDMA '13) releases Slatkin Conducts Slatkin, a new CD featuring the MSM Symphony Orchestra |publisher=Manhattan School of Music |language=en |url=https://www.msmnyc.edu/news/conductor-leonard-slatkin-hondma-13-releases-new-cd-on-feb-11-slatkin-conducts-slatkin-featuring-the-msm-symphony-orchestra/ |access-date=2022-03-06}}

Early life and education

Daniel Slatkin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to conductor and 7-time Grammy winner, Leonard Slatkin and Linda Hohenfeld, on May 16, 1994.{{Cite web |title=Slatkin conducts Slatkin |url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/slatkin-conducts-slatkin |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=Gramophone |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=TIMELINE {{!}} LEONARD SLATKIN |url=https://www.leonardslatkin.com/timeline/ |access-date=2022-03-06 |language=en-US}} The Slatkins are part of a Jewish musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His grandfather, violinist and conductor Felix Slatkin, was the founder of the Hollywood String Quartet and concertmaster of the Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra.{{Cite news |last=Teachout |first=Terry |date=2021-03-09 |title=The Best Musicians You've Never Heard Of |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-musicians-youve-never-heard-of-11615325122 |access-date=2022-03-06 |issn=0099-9660}} His grandmother, Eleanor Aller, was the cellist of the quartet and principal cellist of the Warner Brothers Orchestra, becoming the first female to hold a principal chair in a Hollywood studio orchestra.{{Cite news |last=Oestreich |first=James R. |date=1995-10-13 |title=Eleanor Aller, 78, A Cellist and Part Of a Musical Family |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/13/obituaries/eleanor-aller-78-a-cellist-and-part-of-a-musical-family.html |access-date=2022-03-06 |issn=0362-4331}}

Slatkin was educated in the concert hall. He traveled throughout his youth while training classically in piano, watching his father perform on stages all over the world. Slatkin attended Brooks School where he began forming his musical voice, and during this time had his first professional performance as a pianist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17.{{Cite web |last=McCollum |first=Brian |title=Son of DSO's Leonard Slatkin composed score for new Detroit bankruptcy documentary |url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2022/04/27/daniel-slatkin-score-detroit-bankruptcy-documentary/7409084001/ |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=Detroit Free Press |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Detroit Symphony Orchestra Holiday Concert |website=I Love Detroit MI |language=en-US |url=https://www.ilovedetroitmichigan.com/detroit-music/detroit-symphony-orchestra-home-for-the-holidays-orchestra-hall-detroit-12-17-2011/ |access-date=2022-03-06}} After high school, Slatkin attended the University of Southern California,{{Cite web |title=Southern California: 2014 – 2015 Men's College Squash Season Preview {{!}} College Squash Association |url=https://csasquash.com/2014/10/26/southern-california-2014-2015-mens-college-squash-season-preview/ |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=csasquash.com|date=26 October 2014 }} studying business, music and film.

Career

Slatkin has followed in the footsteps of his family, achieving acclaim at an unusually young age. Slatkin conducted his first orchestral commission, In Fields, at age 23 with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, his works have been performed and commissioned by the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, National Symphony Orchestra and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.{{Cite news |title=Leonard Slatkin gives himself a 75th birthday present: a reunion with the NSO |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/leonard-slatkin-gives-himself-a-75th-birthday-present-a-reunion-with-the-nso/2019/12/06/52b82fd4-1842-11ea-9110-3b34ce1d92b1_story.html |access-date=2022-03-06 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} His recorded music has been broadcast internationally, with his most recent recording, In Fields, having been released in February 2022.{{Cite web |title=CD Spotlight. Noble Grief. Music from Leonard Slatkin and his family, heard by Gerald Fenech |url=https://www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2022/02/slatkin.htm |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=www.classicalmusicdaily.com}}

Slatkin's debut feature film, Making Fun: The Story of Funko, was premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and his film music has since been heard around the world, from Netflix to ESPN to PBS to Amazon Prime to festivals, where his work has been nominated for best score.{{Cite web |last=IdyllwildCinemaFest |title="We're filmmakers. The art form we've chosen has the power to inspire." |url=https://idyllwildcinemafest.com/2022-selections |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=IdyllwildCinemaFest |language=en-US}}

In 2022, Slatkin wrote and recorded the score for a feature film with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the Max M. Fisher Music Center.{{Cite web |last=McCollum |first=Brian |title=Son of DSO's Leonard Slatkin composed score for new Detroit bankruptcy documentary |url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2022/04/27/daniel-slatkin-score-detroit-bankruptcy-documentary/7409084001/ |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=Detroit Free Press |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2022-04-29 |title=Daniel Slatkin composes score for documentary about Detroit's financial woes |url=https://hub.americanorchestras.org/2022/04/29/daniel-slatkin-composes-score-for-documentary-about-detroits-financial-woes/ |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=The Hub |language=en-US}} The film, about the Detroit bankruptcy, won the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.{{Cite web |last=Rahman |first=Nushrat |title=Documentary about Detroit's bankruptcy saga wins $200,000 film prize |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2021/10/27/gradually-then-suddenly-bankruptcy-detroit-ken-burns/8555772002/ |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=Detroit Free Press |language=en-US}} That same year, his score for independent feature film Neon Bleed won two Best Score awards, with the selections made by Roger Taylor of Queen and Alan Parsons.{{Cite web |last=McCollum |first=Brian |title=Son of DSO's Leonard Slatkin composed score for new Detroit bankruptcy documentary |url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2022/04/27/daniel-slatkin-score-detroit-bankruptcy-documentary/7409084001/ |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=Detroit Free Press |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Cinema |first=Scotland International Festival of |title=WINNERS 2022 |url=https://scotlandifc.com/winners-2022 |access-date=2022-05-08 |website=Scotland International Festival of Cinema |language=en-US}}

On September 27th, 2024, Slatkin's orchestral work, Voyager 130, received its world premiere with the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland. The work features recorded sounds contained in the Golden Record, aboard NASA's Voyager Spacecrafts, and utilizes themes from Beethoven's 13th String Quartet (Op. 130).{{Cite web |title=In Dublin, a triumphant NSO birthday celebration for Leonard Slatkin |url=https://bachtrack.com/review-slatkin-tinney-beethoven-brahms-national-symphony-dublin-september-2024 |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=bachtrack.com |language=en}} One month later, Slatkin conducted the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of Grand Slam Fanfare, in recognition of his father's 80th birthday and their mutual love of baseball. The performance featured a surprise appearance by St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop, Ozzie Smith.{{Cite web |last=American |first=Chris King for The St Louis |date=2024-10-26 |title=SLSO birthday party for Leonard Slatkin full of surprises |url=https://www.stlamerican.com/entertainment/living-it/slso-birthday-party-for-leonard-slatkin-full-of-surprises/ |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=St. Louis American |language=en-US}}

Concert works

2018: In Fields
2019: Paganini Goes To The Movies
2024: Voyager 130
2024: Grand Slam Fanfare

Filmography

=Films=

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Year ! Title ! Director ! Notes
2014 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Never to Return \| Scott Bergen Espanol \| Short film
2016 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| 6:15 on a Saturday Night \| Dianna Ippolito \| Short film
2017 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Nexus \| Dianna Ippolito \| Short film
2018 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Making Fun: The Story of Funko \| David Romero \| Netflix
2018 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Dread Hunt \| Nicholas Kramer \| Short film
2018 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| How We Eat \| Blair Pennington \| Short film
2018 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Millennial Romance \| Scott Bergen Espanol \| Short film
2018 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Hollywood Checkmate \| Connor Adams \| Short film
2019 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| American Bison \| Max McGillivray \| Short film
2019 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| The Last Piece \| Will Lowell \| Short film
2019 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Mommy’s Birthday \| Jacob Arbittier \| Short film
2020 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Dinner Guests \| Jacob Arbittier \| Short film
2020 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Man’s best friend \| Pancho Moler \| Short film
2020 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Melissa \| Jacob Arbittier \| Short film
2020 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Clap Clap \| Jacob Arbittier \| Short film
2020 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Matches \| Jordan Nistico \| {{N/A}}
2020 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Come Fck My Robot* \| Mercedes Bryce Morgan \| Short film
2020 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Chestnut Lane \| Jacob Arbittier Ian Soares \| Short film
2020 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Zero Time to Waste \| Matt Helbig \| Short film
2021 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Fish \| Jacob Arbittier \| Short film
2021 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| PLUM: A Baseball Life \| Conor Fitzgerald \| {{N/A}}
2022 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Slice & Hook \| Ray Boland \| Short film
2022 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit \| Sam Katz James McGovern \| {{N/A}}
2022 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Bag Lady \| Max McGillivray \| Short film
2023 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Neon Bleed \| John Capone \| {{N/A}}
2023 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| The Chosen One \| Elazar Fine \| Short film
2023 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Choke Hold \| Max McGillivray \| Short film

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

2014

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Never to Return

| Scott Bergen Espanol

| Short film

2016

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 6:15 on a Saturday Night

| Dianna Ippolito

| Short film

2017

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Nexus

| Dianna Ippolito

| Short film

2018

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Making Fun: The Story of Funko

| David Romero

| Netflix

2018

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Dread Hunt

| Nicholas Kramer

| Short film

2018

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | How We Eat

| Blair Pennington

| Short film

2018

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Millennial Romance

| Scott Bergen Espanol

| Short film

2018

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Hollywood Checkmate

| Connor Adams

| Short film

2019

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | American Bison

| Max McGillivray

| Short film

2019

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | The Last Piece

| Will Lowell

| Short film

2019

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Mommy’s Birthday

| Jacob Arbittier

| Short film

2020

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Dinner Guests

| Jacob Arbittier

| Short film

2020

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Man’s best friend

| Pancho Moler

| Short film

2020

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Melissa

| Jacob Arbittier

| Short film

2020

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Clap Clap

| Jacob Arbittier

| Short film

2020

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Matches

| Jordan Nistico

| {{N/A}}

2020

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Come F*ck My Robot

| Mercedes Bryce Morgan

| Short film

2020

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Chestnut Lane

| Jacob Arbittier
Ian Soares

| Short film

2020

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Zero Time to Waste

| Matt Helbig

| Short film

2021

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Fish

| Jacob Arbittier

| Short film

2021

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | PLUM: A Baseball Life

| Conor Fitzgerald

| {{N/A}}

2022

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Slice & Hook

| Ray Boland

| Short film

2022

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit

| Sam Katz
James McGovern

| {{N/A}}

2022

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Bag Lady

| Max McGillivray

| Short film

2023

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Neon Bleed

| John Capone

| {{N/A}}

2023

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | The Chosen One

| Elazar Fine

| Short film

2023

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Choke Hold

| Max McGillivray

| Short film

=Television=

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Year ! Title ! Director ! Notes
2018 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Bread, Salt & The Graphite Kid \| David Romero \| PBS
2021 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| The Kitchenistas \| David Romero \| PBS
2023 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| SC Featured \| Harry Hawkings \| Awaken: The Morgan Hoffmann Story
2024 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" \| Sunday NFL Countdown \| Harry Hawkings \| Left Hand Man

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

2018

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Bread, Salt & The Graphite Kid

| David Romero

| PBS

2021

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | The Kitchenistas

| David Romero