指挥家伦纳德·斯拉特金 是7届格莱美奖得主，曾任底特律交响乐团、圣路易斯交响乐团音乐总监；他创办了美国指挥学院，是一位儒雅的音乐学者。

伦纳德·斯拉特金是底特律交响乐团以及法国里昂国立管弦乐团的音乐总监。在2012-2013音乐季里，他率领底特律交响乐团在纽约卡耐基音乐厅演出了一系列广受好评的音乐会，其中包括在同一场音乐会中上演查尔斯·艾夫斯全部交响曲的壮举。他还率领里昂国立管弦乐团在巴黎成功上演了拉威尔的歌剧《西班牙时刻》与《孩子与魔法》，以及在拉赫玛尼诺夫诞辰140周年之际与丹尼斯·马祖耶夫及俄罗斯国家交响乐团在莫斯科的庆典演出。

在2013-2014音乐季，斯拉特金大师将在波兰华沙指挥潘德列茨基80岁生日庆典音乐会，与安妮·秋子·迈耶斯以及伦敦交响乐团录制唱片，还将与匹兹堡交响乐团、圣路易斯交响乐团合作，以及在探戈坞音乐节上与波士顿交响乐团合作。

伦纳德·斯拉特金录制的超过100种唱片已经为他赢得了7座格莱美奖以及64项提名。他与里昂国立管弦乐团合作录制了莫里斯·拉威尔以及埃克托·柏辽兹的全部交响乐作品，以及与奥尔加·科恩合作录制拉赫玛尼诺夫的全部钢琴协奏曲。他与底特律交响乐团录制了贝多芬全部交响曲的数字套装，今后还将录制柴可夫斯基的全套协奏曲与交响曲。

伦纳德·斯拉特金是2003年度美国国家艺术奖章得主，还曾经荣获美国交响乐团联盟金指挥棒奖以及美国作曲家、作家及出版商协会颁发的多个奖项。他曾获颁法国荣誉军团骑士勋章，奥地利银质荣誉勋章，以及朱莉亚音乐学院、印第安纳大学、密歇根州立大学以及圣路易斯华盛顿大学颁发的荣誉博士学位。

斯拉特金曾担任圣路易斯交响乐团与华盛顿国家交响乐团的音乐总监，以及BBC交响乐团的首席指挥。他曾在英国皇家爱乐乐团、好莱坞露天剧场的洛杉矶爱乐乐团、伦敦爱乐管弦乐团以及匹兹堡交响乐团担任首席客座指挥。

作为美国国家指挥学院以及圣路易斯交响乐团青年乐团的创始人与总监，斯拉特金在印第安纳大学雅各布斯音乐学院、曼哈顿音乐学院与朱莉亚音乐学院从事教学事业。

他出生在洛杉矶一个显赫的音乐世家里，其父母是指挥家兼小提琴家费利克斯·斯拉特金与大提琴家埃拉诺·阿勒夫妇，他们均是好莱坞弦乐四重奏的创始成员。斯拉特金最初学习小提琴，后来跟随其父亲学习指挥，并在阿斯本跟随沃尔特·苏斯金德学习，在朱莉亚音乐学院跟随让·莫雷学习。

Leonard Slatkin is Music Director of both the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon, France. During the 2012-13 season he led the DSO in highly acclaimed concerts at Carnegie Hall, including one concert in which all four Charles Ives symphonies were presented in a single evening; directed the Orchestre National de Lyon in a triumphant Paris concert of Ravel’s L’heure espangole and L’enfant et les sortilèges; and celebrated Rachmaninoff’s 140th anniversary with Denis Matsuev and the State Symphony of Russia in Moscow.

During the 2013-14 season, Maestro Slatkin will conduct at Penderecki’s 80th birthday celebration in Warsaw, record with Anne-Akiko Myers and the London Symphony, and appear with the Chicago Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood.

Slatkin’s more than 100 recordings have won seven Grammy awards and earned 64 nominations. With the Orchestre National de Lyon he has embarked on recording cycles of the Rachmaninoff piano concerti with Olga Kern and the symphonic works of Maurice Ravel and Hector Berlioz. With the Detroit Symphony he has made available a digital box set of the Beethoven symphonies and plans to release the concerti and symphonies of Tchaikovsky in the future.

Slatkin has received the USA’s prestigious National Medal of Arts, the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Gold Baton Award and several ASCAP awards. He has earned France’s Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Austria’s Declaration of Honor in Silver, and honorary doctorates from The Julliard School, Indiana University, Michigan State University and Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the recipient of a 2013 ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award for his book, Conducting Business.

Slatkin has served as Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and as Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London. He has held Principal Guest Conductor positions with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Founder and director of the National Conducting Institute and the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, Slatkin continues his conducting and teaching activities at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School.

Born in Los Angeles to a distinguished musical family, he is the son of conductor-violinist Felix Slatkin and cellist Eleanor Aller, founding members of the famed Hollywood String Quartet. He began his musical studies on the violin and studied conducting with his father, followed by Walter Susskind at Aspen and Jean Morel at The Juilliard School.