Daniel Slatkin is an internationally recognized and award-winning composer of music for film, television and the concert hall. He scored the SportsCenter Featured documentary, “Awaken: The Morgan Hoffmann Story,” for ESPN, and conducted the strings of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for his score to “Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit,” a feature documentary which received the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.
Rooted in classical and electronic music, Slatkin is a multiple Best Score Award recipient on the festival circuit, selected by well known artists such as Queen’s Roger Taylor and Alan Parsons, who recognized his dramatic underscoring work. Slatkin’s score for his debut feature film, “Making Fun: The Story of Funko,” composed shortly after completing his undergraduate studies at USC, premiered at the legendary TCL Chinese Theatre and was released worldwide on Netflix. Since then, his music can be heard on multiple broadcast networks, streaming platforms, and in theaters and festivals around the world.
As for Slatkin’s concert music, “Voyager 130”, a major work for symphony orchestra, will receive its world premiere during the 2024/25 concert season with the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland, as well as subsequent performances with the Orchestre National de Lyon, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria. 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.