0:00 Clarke Sonata (live excerpt)
01:32 Bach Suite No. 2 Sarabande (excerpt)
02:31 Hindemith Trauermusik (live excerpt)
04:20 Bach Suite No. 5 Prelude (excerpt)
07:05 Brahms Sonata in f minor (live excerpt)
08:32 Vaughan Williams Flos Campi (live excerpts)
13:53 Rolla Duet in E-flat major for two violas (excerpt)
“Solomon is rhythmically alive and always sensitive to the music's implied polyphony …considerable viola prowess…”
-The Journal of the American Viola Society
bio
Tanya Solomon is an internationally accomplished violist and educator based in Newcastle, England. Originally from Geneva, Switzerland, her career spans multiple orchestral appointments, groundbreaking recordings, and a global teaching studio.
A finalist in the International William Primrose Competition, Solomon has soloed with orchestras in lyrical 20th-century repertoire—such as Hindemith's Trauermusik and Vaughan Williams' Flos Campi—and has performed at music festivals across the United States and Europe. She recorded the complete cycle of Bach's Cello Suites as part of the first-ever complete all-viola recording of J.S. Bach's Unaccompanied Sonatas, Partitas, and Suites (Eroica Classical Recordings).
Her playing has also been celebrated on the duo album Sketches from the New World, recorded with her husband and musical partner, Scott Slapin, which The Strad praised as "absolutely brilliant." As duo recitalists, Solomon and Slapin have been featured performers at several International Viola Congresses/Festivals, and they won Best Chamber Music Performance of 2008 at the Big Easy Entertainment Awards in New Orleans.
As a dedicated educator, Solomon has held teaching positions at Amherst College in Massachusetts and at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she served as principal violist of the city’s symphony and opera orchestras. She has also been a member of the New World Symphony in Florida, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the Louisville Orchestra, the Philadelphia Virtuosi, the São Paulo Symphony in Brazil, and the Louisiana Philharmonic (violin and viola) in New Orleans, sharing a stand with Slapin in the last four.
Today, she shares her expertise with students worldwide, teaching both online via Muze and in person at her private studio in Newcastle. She welcomes adult students of all levels, from beginners to advanced professionals. Solomon holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Northwestern University. She performs on a viola crafted by Marten Cornelissen. Click here for many videos at YouTube!
About Tanya's recording of the Bach Suites:
“The sound quality is excellent, and they are very musically presented. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!”
-The Journal of the Canadian Viola Society
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MUSIC BY TANYA M. SOLOMON
Solo viola:
Improvisation No. 1 - 4 minutes, available from Violacentric Publications
TWO VIOLAS:
Improvisation No. 2 “Alpine Echoes” - 5 minutes, available from Violacentric Publications