Patrick Soluri (short bio)
A multi-talented composer who specializes in dramatic music for orchestra, ballet, opera & film/TV.
Patrick Soluri (med bio)
Patrick Soluri is a multi-talented composer based in New York City who specializes in dramatic music for orchestra, ballet, opera, film & TV. His love of telling stories through music is evident in his large body of work and commissions for the stage, screen and concert hall. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, around the US and in Europe. He has studied with many illustrious composers and musicians and received numerous honors and recognitions.
Patrick Soluri (long bio)
PATRICK SOLURI is a multi-talented NYC based composer who specializes in dramatic music for orchestra, ballet, opera, film and TV. His love of telling stories through music is evident in his large body of work for the stage, screen and concert hall. His works have been performed, recorded and showcased by the New York City Opera, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Astoria Symphony and the Manhattan Virtuosi, among others. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, around the US and in Europe. He has studied with many illustrious composers and musicians and received numerous honors and recognitions. Career highlights include commissions for several orchestral ballet scores, film scores, and many orchestral and chamber concert works.
His ballet scores MADAME X, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT MOTHER and MURDER AT THE MASQUE: CASEBOOK OF EDGAR ALLAN POE have been commissioned and performed by Dances Patrelle. Staatsballett Berlin commissioned TO BE CONTINUED with choreography by Xenia Wiest, premiered in Berlin, Germany with 18 performances over two seasons. His first children's ballet, FANCY NANCY, commissioned by the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet had sold out shows in March 2010 (Akron, Ohio) with additional sold out shows in NYC.
Mr. Soluri's operatic works include THE INFERNO OF DANTE: CANTO V which was schowcased by New York City Opera as part of VOX 2003: Showcasing American Composers. He was a 2008 Resident Artist in the American Lyric Theater's (ALT) Composer Librettist Development. ALT also commissioned the one-act opera EMBEDDED from Mr. Soluri based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. His frequently performed 10-minute comic opera FIGARO'S LAST HANGOVER was featured in a sold-out performance at Weill-Carnegie Hall on October 1st, 2009 by the Remarkable Theater Brigade, followed by THE TELL TALE CELLPHONE in 2010 and returns with the company a third time to Weill-Carnegie Hall to premiere a new short opera in November 2011.
Mr. Soluri has produced and released 3 CDs through Soluri Music available at iTunes (worldwide) as well as other online distributors. CDs are available directly from Soluri Music.
In addition to his classical work, Mr. Soluri has written several film scores, and has composed, produced and orchestrated hundreds of tracks of evocative music for film and TV in multiple genres ranging from orchestral, jazz and industrial to rock and world music. In 2000 he was selected to participate in the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Los Angeles, where he composed, recorded and conducted a cue on the Newman Scoring Stage at the 20th Century Fox Studio with an "A-list" Hollywood orchestra. Much of his music has been licensed (non-exclusive) to various Film & TV music libraries and has been used on numerous shows on TLC, LOGO and DISCOVERY HEALTH among others in the US, UK and Canada, as well as on the hit show "America's Got Talent." In addition to composing, his versatility has enabled him to work fluidly as an orchestrator, arranger and music producer in numerous styles of music. He received an official 2009 Certificate of Recognition from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his work as an Orchestrator and MIDI Synthesist on the 3rd season of the hit children's show, THE WONDERPETS, which won 2009 and 2010 Emmy Awards for best music. Though classically trained, Mr Soluri grew up as a drummer, and he currently plays in an indie rock band in NYC. They have played CBGBs, Galapagos, and Sine, among others, and are currently recording their first album.
Mr. Soluri began his undergraduate studies at Bennington College; he received a BM in Composition from the Manhattan School of Music, followed by a MM in Composition and Theory from the University of Louisville as a recipient of the Moritz von Bomhard Fellowship (for opera and dramatic vocal composition). His teachers have included Aaron Jay Kernis, Tobias Picker, Nils Vigeland, Giampaolo Bracali, Allen Shawn, Marc Satterwhite and Peter Golub.