She was nominated, along Lorenzo Viotti and Jiri Rozen, for the Young Conductor Award of the Salzburg Festival in 2015,[4] and received a prize of the Malko Competition.
[2] Šlekytė was Erste Kapellmeisterin at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt for two seasons beginning in 2016/17, conducting Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Die Zauberflöte and Don Giovanni, Lehar's Das Land des Lächelns, Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Verdi's La traviata and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
[6] She led both the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden for the first time in the 2018/19 season, conducting a concert at the Semperoper of works by Georges Bizet, Jukka Linkola and Mozart.
She led the Gewandhausorchester in Schwanensee and Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel at the Oper Leipzig, Die Zauberflöte at the Theater Basel, and Pascal Dusapin's Perelà, uomo di fumo at the Staatstheater Mainz.
[2] She is the designated successor of Bruno Weil as Erste Gastdirigentin (first guest conductor) of the Bruckner Orchester Linz from the 2021/22 season.