In the 2023/24 season, Slobodeniouk makes debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. He also appears with the Wiener Symphoniker and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and will make a special return to the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, where he was Music Director until 2022. Slobodeniouk opened the season with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tanglewood. He returned to the orchestra later in the season and appeared with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in the spring.

In the opera pit, Slobodeniouk makes his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he conducts the revival of Calixto Bieito’s production of Boris Godunov.

Soloists he has worked with include Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Khatia Buniatishvili, Seong-Jin Cho, Isabelle Faust, Kirill Gerstein, Barbara Hannigan, Håkan Hardenberger, Martin Helmchen, Alexandre Kantorow, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Beatrice Rana, Baiba Skride, Yuja Wang, and Frank Peter Zimmermann.

Known for his musical expertise and interpretive depth, Slobodeniouk is also an acclaimed recording artist. Recent notable recordings include Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto with Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Nicolas Altstaedt on Alpha, for which he received an ICMA Award. On the BIS label, he released an album of music inspired by the Finnish folk epic the Kalevala. Other releases on this label include the works of Kalevi Aho with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, which won the 2018 BBC Music Magazine Award, and a later disc of Aho’s Sieidi and his Fifth Symphony. For the Ondine label, Slobodeniouk recorded works by Perttu Haapanen and Lotta Wennäkoski with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Slobodeniouk studied with the Ukrainian violinist Olga Parkhomenko at Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy and graduated in 2001. It was there that he took up conducting studies with Leif Segerstam, Jorma Panula, and Atso Almila.

From 2016 to 2021, he was Principal Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Artistic Director of the Sibelius Festival. He was Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia from 2013 to 2022 and Principal Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra from 2016 to 2021, as well as the Artistic Director of the Sibelius Festival. Together with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia he built an extensive and highly acclaimed media library of live concert recordings in recent years. A passionate believer in widening opportunity, he started a conducting initiative while at the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, giving aspiring conductors podium time with a professional orchestra and the opportunity to work with him on selected repertoire.