Leonard Slatkin

指揮家倫納德·斯拉特金 是7屆格萊美獎(jiǎng)得主，曾任底特律交響樂團(tuán)、圣路易斯交響樂團(tuán)音樂總監(jiān)；他創(chuàng)辦了美國(guó)指揮學(xué)院，是一位儒雅的音樂學(xué)者。
 
倫納德·斯拉特金是底特律交響樂團(tuán)以及法國(guó)里昂國(guó)立管弦樂團(tuán)的音樂總監(jiān)。在2012-2013音樂季里，他率領(lǐng)底特律交響樂團(tuán)在紐約卡耐基音樂廳演出了一系列廣受好評(píng)的音樂會(huì)，其中包括在同一場(chǎng)音樂會(huì)中上演查爾斯·艾夫斯全部交響曲的壯舉。他還率領(lǐng)里昂國(guó)立管弦樂團(tuán)在巴黎成功上演了拉威爾的歌劇《西班牙時(shí)刻》與《孩子與魔法》，以及在拉赫瑪尼諾夫誕辰140周年之際與丹尼斯·馬祖耶夫及俄羅斯國(guó)家交響樂團(tuán)在莫斯科的慶典演出。
 
在2013-2014音樂季，斯拉特金大師將在波蘭華沙指揮潘德列茨基80歲生日慶典音樂會(huì)，與安妮·秋子·邁耶斯以及倫敦交響樂團(tuán)錄制唱片，還將與匹茲堡交響樂團(tuán)、圣路易斯交響樂團(tuán)合作，以及在探戈塢音樂節(jié)上與波士頓交響樂團(tuán)合作。
 
倫納德·斯拉特金錄制的超過(guò)100種唱片已經(jīng)為他贏得了7座格萊美獎(jiǎng)以及64項(xiàng)提名。他與里昂國(guó)立管弦樂團(tuán)合作錄制了莫里斯·拉威爾以及埃克托·柏遼茲的全部交響樂作品，以及與奧爾加·科恩合作錄制拉赫瑪尼諾夫的全部鋼琴協(xié)奏曲。他與底特律交響樂團(tuán)錄制了貝多芬全部交響曲的數(shù)字套裝，今后還將錄制柴可夫斯基的全套協(xié)奏曲與交響曲。
 
倫納德·斯拉特金是2003年度美國(guó)國(guó)家藝術(shù)獎(jiǎng)?wù)碌弥?，還曾經(jīng)榮獲美國(guó)交響樂團(tuán)聯(lián)盟金指揮棒獎(jiǎng)以及美國(guó)作曲家、作家及出版商協(xié)會(huì)頒發(fā)的多個(gè)獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)。他曾獲頒法國(guó)榮譽(yù)軍團(tuán)騎士勛章，奧地利銀質(zhì)榮譽(yù)勛章，以及朱莉亞音樂學(xué)院、印第安納大學(xué)、密歇根州立大學(xué)以及圣路易斯華盛頓大學(xué)頒發(fā)的榮譽(yù)博士學(xué)位。
 
斯拉特金曾擔(dān)任圣路易斯交響樂團(tuán)與華盛頓國(guó)家交響樂團(tuán)的音樂總監(jiān)，以及BBC交響樂團(tuán)的首席指揮。他曾在英國(guó)皇家愛樂樂團(tuán)、好萊塢露天劇場(chǎng)的洛杉磯愛樂樂團(tuán)、倫敦愛樂管弦樂團(tuán)以及匹茲堡交響樂團(tuán)擔(dān)任首席客座指揮。
 
作為美國(guó)國(guó)家指揮學(xué)院以及圣路易斯交響樂團(tuán)青年樂團(tuán)的創(chuàng)始人與總監(jiān)，斯拉特金在印第安納大學(xué)雅各布斯音樂學(xué)院、曼哈頓音樂學(xué)院與朱莉亞音樂學(xué)院從事教學(xué)事業(yè)。
 
他出生在洛杉磯一個(gè)顯赫的音樂世家里，其父母是指揮家兼小提琴家費(fèi)利克斯·斯拉特金與大提琴家埃拉諾·阿勒夫婦，他們均是好萊塢弦樂四重奏的創(chuàng)始成員。斯拉特金最初學(xué)習(xí)小提琴，后來(lái)跟隨其父親學(xué)習(xí)指揮，并在阿斯本跟隨沃爾特·蘇斯金德學(xué)習(xí)，在朱莉亞音樂學(xué)院跟隨讓·莫雷學(xué)習(xí)。
 
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.