Daniel Slatkin
Daniel Slatkin in 2018.
Born
Daniel Alexander Slatkin

(1994-05-16) May 16, 1994
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupations
Years active2016–present
Musical career
Genres
Websiteslatkinmusic.com

Daniel Alexander Slatkin (born May 16, 1994) is an American composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and music producer known for his film scores, television scores and concert works.[1][2] At the age of 23, Slatkin's feature film debut was premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre,[3] and five months later had his symphony orchestra debut with a concert work commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.[4]

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.[5][6] 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.[7] 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.[8]

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.[9][10] After high school, Slatkin attended the University of Southern California,[11] studying business, music and film, where he discovered his love of setting music to the moving image.

Career

Slatkin has followed in the footsteps of his family, achieving acclaim at an unusually young age. Slatkin's first feature film was premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre just after he turned 23, 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.[12]

In 2022, Slatkin recorded the score for a feature film with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the Max M. Fisher Music Center.[13][14] The film, about the Detroit bankruptcy, won the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.[15] 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.[16][17]

On the concert stage, Slatkin has had works commissioned and performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, National Symphony Orchestra and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.[18] His recorded music has been broadcast internationally, with his most recent recording, In Fields, having been released in February 2022.[19]

Filmography

Films

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

Television

Year Title Director Notes
2018 Bread, Salt & The Graphite Kid David Romero PBS
2021 The Kitchenistas David Romero PBS
2023 SC Featured Harry Hawkings Awaken: The Morgan Hoffmann Story

Personal life

Slatkin resides in Los Angeles with his wife and business partner, Bridget Slatkin.

References

  1. ↑ McCollum, Brian. "Son of DSO's Leonard Slatkin composed score for new Detroit bankruptcy documentary". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  2. ↑ Post-Dispatch, Daniel Durchholz Special to the. "Maestro's musings: Slatkin's new book takes hard look at classical music industry". STLtoday.com. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  3. ↑ "World Premiere of 'Making Fun - the Story of Funko' on Jan. 22 at Tcl Chinese Theatre!". funko.com. December 18, 2017. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  4. ↑ "MSM trustee Leonard Slatkin (HonDMA '13) releases Slatkin Conducts Slatkin, a new CD featuring the MSM Symphony Orchestra". Manhattan School of Music. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  5. ↑ "Slatkin conducts Slatkin". Gramophone. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  6. ↑ "TIMELINE | LEONARD SLATKIN". Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  7. ↑ Teachout, Terry (2021-03-09). "The Best Musicians You've Never Heard Of". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  8. ↑ Oestreich, James R. (1995-10-13). "Eleanor Aller, 78, A Cellist and Part Of a Musical Family". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  9. ↑ McCollum, Brian. "Son of DSO's Leonard Slatkin composed score for new Detroit bankruptcy documentary". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  10. ↑ "Detroit Symphony Orchestra Holiday Concert". I Love Detroit MI. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  11. ↑ "Southern California: 2014 – 2015 Men's College Squash Season Preview | College Squash Association". csasquash.com. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  12. ↑ IdyllwildCinemaFest. ""We're filmmakers. The art form we've chosen has the power to inspire."". IdyllwildCinemaFest. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  13. ↑ McCollum, Brian. "Son of DSO's Leonard Slatkin composed score for new Detroit bankruptcy documentary". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  14. ↑ "Daniel Slatkin composes score for documentary about Detroit's financial woes". The Hub. 2022-04-29. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  15. ↑ Rahman, Nushrat. "Documentary about Detroit's bankruptcy saga wins $200,000 film prize". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  16. ↑ McCollum, Brian. "Son of DSO's Leonard Slatkin composed score for new Detroit bankruptcy documentary". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  17. ↑ Cinema, Scotland International Festival of. "WINNERS 2022". Scotland International Festival of Cinema. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  18. ↑ "Leonard Slatkin gives himself a 75th birthday present: a reunion with the NSO". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  19. ↑ "CD Spotlight. Noble Grief. Music from Leonard Slatkin and his family, heard by Gerald Fenech". www.classicalmusicdaily.com. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
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