Daniel Slatkin

Daniel Slatkin is an internationally recognized, award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist. He inhabits the worlds of film, television and classical music equally, evoking vivid imagery through his work. His musical style is best described as classic orchestral, with modern touches. Alongside the orchestra, his scores often feature piano, guitars and synthesizers performed and recorded by himself.

Slatkin's orchestral concert work has been performed on the biggest stages in the world. "Voyager 130," a 12-minute piece for full orchestra, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), Orchestre National de Lyon and Orquesta Filarmónica de Grand Canaria, musically describes the journeys of the Voyager spacecrafts using material from the program's Golden Record, most prominently Beethoven's 13th String Quartet, beginning at the launchpad and ending at the edge of our solar system.

Slatkin himself conducted the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of "Grand Slam Fanfare," which featured an appearance by St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop, Ozzie Smith. An epic orchestral celebration of baseball, the piece references classic stadium organ vamps, and concludes with a crack of the bat, performed by a baseball bat custom-built and designed for the work. His first concert work, "In Fields", commissioned and premiered by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, was recorded by the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra and released on Naxos Records.

As for his film music, Slatkin has scored multiple emotionally-driven sport projects for ESPN, most recently the brass- and electric guitar-focused score for "Left Hand Man" on Sunday NFL Countdown, about Kansas City Chiefs coach Porter Ellett, and "Awaken: The Morgan Hoffmann Story" for SportsCenter Featured, featuring a soaring live string orchestra to aid in telling golfer Morgan Hoffmann's inspiring story about his battle with muscular dystrophy. He also scored "Boys To Fame," a feature-length documentary about Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame wide receiver Tommy McDonald and sports columnist Ray Didinger. conducted the strings of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in their concert hall for "Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit," a feature documentary which received the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.

He is currently scoring "In Pursuit," a 10-part docuseries chronicling the complete history of Philadelphia.