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
A native of Geneva, Switzerland, violist Tanya Solomon holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Northwestern University. Her teachers have included Michael Tseitlin, Robert Eshbach, Jeffrey Irvine, and Peter Slowik. A finalist in the International William Primrose Competition, Tanya has performed extensively in ensembles and music festivals throughout the United States and Europe, given many recitals, and soloed with orchestras in such lyrical 20th Century repertoire as Hindemith's Trauermusik and Vaughan-Williams' Flos Campi. She can be heard playing all six Bach Cello Suites as part of the first complete all-viola recording ever made of J.S. Bach's Unaccompanied Sonatas, Partitas, and Suites (BWV 1001-1013), released in 2009 on the Eroica Classical Recordings label.
Tanya has taught at Amherst College in Massachusetts and at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, where she was principal violist with 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 in the last four with her husband Scott Slapin. As duo recitalists, Tanya and Scott 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. Their debut CD Sketches from the New World: American Viola Duos in the 21st Century was hailed as "absolutely brilliant" in Strad Magazine.
Based in Newcastle, England, Tanya teaches private viola and violin in her home studio as well as worldwide via Muze. Her students have included beginners, advanced professionals, teenagers, and older adults. She plays a viola made by Marten Cornelissen of Northampton, Massachusetts. 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