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LEONARD SLATKIN Download Following seventeen years as Music Director of the Saint Louis
Symphony Orchestra (1979-1996), Leonard Slatkin was named Conductor Laureate.
He has also served as Festival Director of the Cleveland Orchestra's Blossom Festival
(1990-99), Principal Guest Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra (1997-2000)
and Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (2000-2004). He assumed the
position of Music Director of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra in 1996.
His tenure has included highly acclaimed European, Asian and US tours, a Grammy
for Best Classical Recording, the foundation of the National Conducting Institute
and the National Medal of the Arts, the nation's highest honour for a performing
artist. Leonard Slatkin has made regular appearances with virtually every
major international orchestra, including the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic,
Chicago Symphony, Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and Boston Symphony orchestras,
as well as many others. His performances of opera have taken him to leading opera
companies in the USA and around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric
Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera and Vienna State Opera. Leonard Slatkin has always had a special relationship with the
United Kingdom and his term as Chief Conductor of the BBC's flagship orchestra,
the BBC Symphony Orchestra, included four 'Last Night of the Proms' broadcast
worldwide, several critically acclaimed television programmes and a series of
discs for Chandos. He was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra in November 2005 and recent and forthcoming plans include tours to Germany,
Spain and Egypt as well as several recordings and a series of concerts in London
and around the UK. He also conducts regularly elsewhere in Europe and during the
next two seasons he will appear with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin,
Leipzig Gewandhaus, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique
de Radio France and conduct the major orchestras in Milan, Rotterdam, Geneva,
Copenhagen, Stockholm, Barcelona and Madrid. Leonard Slatkin's more than 100 recordings have been recognised
with five Grammy awards and more than fifty other Grammy nominations. He has recorded
with the National Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Philharmonia, London Philharmonic,
BBC Symphony, London Symphony and Bayerischer Rundfunk orchestras. Born in Los Angeles to a distinguished musical family, his parents
were the conductor-violinist Felix Slatkin and cellist Eleanor Aller, founding
members of the famed Hollywood String Quartet, Leonard Slatkin began his musical
studies on the violin and piano before turning to conducting. He is married to
soprano Linda Hohenfeld, and they have one son, Daniel.
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Internationally recognised American conductor Leonard Slatkin is Music Director
of the National Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
at the Hollywood Bowl. His performances throughout North America, Europe and the
Far East have been distinguished by imaginative programming and highly praised
interpretations of both the standard and contemporary symphonic repertoire.
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