Daniel Slatkin is an internationally recognized composer and multi-instrumentalist. He inhabits the worlds of film, television and classical music equally, evoking vivid imagery through his work. His musical style is best described as classic orchestral, with modern touches. Alongside the orchestra, his scores often feature piano, guitars and synthesizers performed and recorded by himself.

Slatkin's orchestral work has been performed on the world's biggest stages. "Voyager 130," a 12-minute piece performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), Orchestre National de Lyon and Orquesta Filarmónica de Grand Canaria, musically describes the journeys of the Voyager spacecrafts using material from the program's Golden Record, most prominently Beethoven's 13th String Quartet, beginning at the launchpad and ending at the edge of our solar system.

Slatkin himself conducted the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of "Grand Slam Fanfare," which featured an appearance by St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop, Ozzie Smith. An epic celebration of baseball, the piece references classic stadium organ vamps, and concludes with a crack of a baseball bat custom-built and designed for the work.

As for his film and television music, Slatkin most recently scored the opening cinematic for the Ohio State vs. Texas college football game on ABC, which was the most-watched regular season broadcast in 10 years. He's also scored multiple emotionally-driven sport projects for ESPN, including "Left Hand Man" on Sunday NFL Countdown, about Kansas City Chiefs coach Porter Ellett, and "Awaken: The Morgan Hoffmann Story" for SportsCenter Featured, featuring a soaring live string orchestra to aid in telling golfer Morgan Hoffmann's inspiring story about his battle with muscular dystrophy. He also is scoring "In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America," a 10-part docuseries chronicling the complete history of Philadelphia. In 2021, he conducted the strings of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in their concert hall for "Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit," a feature documentary which received the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.