May 26, 2023

New episodes of The Slatkin Shuffle will air on Classic 107.3 FM starting this weekend, Saturdays at 10 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. CDT. The May 27 episode is all about walking and its musical counterpart, andante. Join Leonard as he shares the eclectic collection of songs in his playlist. Listen to 200 hours of The Slatkin Shuffle on demand at Soundcloud.

May 2, 2023

Leonard travels to Nashville this week to conduct a program comprising Copland’s Rodeo; Slatkin’s composition Kinah, an elegy to his parents; and Elgar’s Symphony No. 1. He was music advisor of the Nashville Symphony for three seasons 2006-2009, leading the inaugural concert in the Schermerhorn Center and the Grammy-winning recording of Joan Tower’s Made in America.

April 18, 2023

Leonard is back in St. Louis to conduct a program steeped in Spain and the Spanish language, beginning with Chabrier’s España and concluding with Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote featuring cellist Joshua Roman. Rounding out the concert is Mason Bates’s Anthology of Fantastic Zoology, a “psychedelic Carnival of the Animals” based on Argentinian short stories.

March 10, 2023

Naxos has released a box set of Rachmaninov’s symphonies recorded by Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Gramophone praised the “impressive, highly desirable interpretations” in this acclaimed edition.

March 3, 2023

Leonard is in Dublin to perform two programs with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, tonight at 7:30 PM GMT/2:30 PM EST and Friday, March 10, at 7:30 PM GMT/2:30 PM EST. The concerts will be broadcast live and available for online listening at RTÉ Lyric Live FM.

February 3, 2023

Leonard once again joins the DSO for three concerts with pianist Garrick Ohlsson. The program, originally planned for spring 2020, comprises three masterpieces: Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

January 25, 2023

Slatkin’s first visit to Spokane culminated in both a warm welcome from audiences and rave reviews from critics. As Larry Lapidus of the Spokesman-Review averred, “The meticulous clarity with which he conveyed the instructions of the score to the orchestra was a source of wonder.”

December 8, 2022

The Violoncello Society of New York has announced a memorial honoring Leonard’s late brother, Fred Zlotkin. The event will take place on Monday, January 30, 4:00 p.m. in Morse Hall at The Juilliard School and is open to all those who wish to attend.

November 16, 2022

Slatkin will lead the NHK Symphony Orchestra’s concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka November 18-27. The first program comprises Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Rodeo. The second program features the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with soloist Ray Chen and two works by Vaughan Williams.

September 20, 2022

After eight days of competition, six musicians have advanced to the final round of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Each violinist will perform a concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Leonard Slatkin.