February 11, 2022

Today marks the release of a very personal project honoring three generations of the Slatkin family. Slatkin Conducts Slatkin featuring the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, and Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin is now available on Naxos Records.

February 2, 2022

Leonard Slatkin’s latest recording, Slatkin Conducts Slatkin, is now available for pre-order. The album features the Detroit Symphony Orchestra playing Slatkin’s compositions Endgames and Kinah, and the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra performing The Raven with narrator Alec Baldwin.

January 20, 2022

This weekend, American Musical Journey, Slatkin’s radio program about the evolution of music, moves into a new time slot on Classic 107.3 FM—Sundays at 12 p.m. Central. Upcoming all-new episodes of The Slatkin Shuffle feature selections from the years 1964 and 1968.

January 5, 2022

Naxos Records has announced a release date of February 11 for Leonard’s latest recording, Slatkin Conducts Slatkin. The album features works written by generations of Slatkin’s musical family.

November 19, 2021

Leonard Slatkin is in Budapest working with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, marking his first time conducting a Hungarian orchestra in his fifty-year career. He will lead the orchestra in works by Corigliano, Dohnányi, and Beethoven.

November 2, 2021

This month, Naxos Records will release a five-CD box set of Leroy Anderson’s complete orchestral works as recorded by Leonard Slatkin and the BBC Concert Orchestra. 

October 19, 2021

Leonard Slatkin is back in Europe for the first time since the global pandemic began, conducting Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8, Rabaud’s La Procession nocturne, and John Williams’s Five Sacred Trees with the Orchestre National de Lyon.

October 15, 2021

Music Director Laureate Leonard Slatkin returns to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducting Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and two world premieres: Samuel Adler’s Mirror Images and Joseph Schwantner’s Violin Concerto with soloist Yevgeny Kutick.

October 7, 2021

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin takes the stage this weekend for a program that travels backwards in time to get three very different views of America. The performances on October 9 and 10 feature Joan Tower’s Made in America, William Bolcom’s Violin Concerto with soloist David Halen, and Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

September 13, 2021

This week marks the publication of Leonard’s third book, Classical Crossroads: The Path Forward for Music in the 21st Century, available September 15 from Rowman & Littlefield and anywhere books are sold.