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JEFFREY SOLOW - Cellist
"One of the best of American cellists" FANFARE magazine
Biography: Cellist JEFFREY SOLOW maintains a busy schedule as recitalist, soloist,
chamber musician, and teacher. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, where he studied with the distinguished cellist Gabor
Rejto. Later, he earned a degree in Philosophy magna cum laude from UCLA while studying with and then assisting the legendary
Gregor Piatigorsky at USC.
Mr. Solow has toured throughout the United States and Canada, Europe, Latin America,
and the Far East and performed more than 30 works with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic (including the Hollywood
Bowl), Japan Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and American Symphony (with
whom he also recorded). He has been guest artist at many national and international chamber music festivals, was a member
of The Amadeus Trio for 10 years, and was recently selected by PennPAT (Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour) for inclusion
on their highly selective roster. Among his many recordings for the Delos, Columbia, New World, ABC, Centaur, Kleos, Everest,
and Telefunken labels, two were nominated for Grammy Awards.
Mr. Solow is active in other area of music besides
performing. Strad, Strings, and American String Teacher magazines have published his articles and reviews; he is editor of
the Newsletter of the Violoncello Society, Inc. (NY); and he is president-elect of the American String Teachers Association.
He is also a scuba diver and prize-winning underwater photographer and occasionally finds time to sustain his interest in
protozoology and paleontology. Recognized as an authority on healthy and efficient cello playing, Mr. Solow regularly presents
master classes nationally and internationally and is Professor of Cello and Chair of the Department of Instrumental Studies
at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music & Dance in Philadelphia.
Press Excerpts: “Warmth ... confidence ... fleet and agile fingering ... true
virtuoso flair”
The Washington Post
“Commands a big singing tone and a soaring
technique”
Philadelphia Enquirer
“Excellent ... outstanding”
American Record Guide
“Flawless
intonation and generous technique”
TIME magazine
“Jeffrey Solow plays with taste,
sense, and most strikingly of all, tremendous verve and temperament”
The Boston Globe
“Instant, long standing ovation ... dazzling ... masterful”
Arizona Daily Sun
“Brilliant ... far and away the highlight of the concert ... spectacular”
Arkansas
Democrat
“His
intonation is excellent, his sense of rhythm a sheer joy, and his delicacy of shading creates a warmth of tone akin to the
human voice”
The
Atlanta Journal
“Exquisite
... standing ovation at the end was well deserved”
Sioux City Journal
“His intonation is irreproachable, his technique clean, his
tone uncommonly pure, and he communicates directly with the musical sense that demands and holds the attention”
Los Angeles Times
Concerto Repertoire: BACH: Concerto in A Major, BWV 1054 (arr. Solow) BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto BERNSTEIN: Three Meditations from "Mass" BLOCH: Schelomo; Prayer
BOCCHERINI: Concerto in G BOCCHERINI-GRÜZMACHER:
Concerto in B-flat BOCCHERINI-PIATIGORSKY: Concerto di Camera (orch. Solow) BRAHMS:
Double Concerto BRUCH: Kol Nidre PAUL CHIHARA: Wind Song (written for Jeffrey Solow) COUPERIN-BAZELAIRE: Pièces en Concert DAVIDOFF: Concerto No. 1; Concerto No. 1; At the Fountain; Ballade
DVORAK: Concerto; Polonaise; Rondo; Waldesruhe ELGAR:
Concerto FAURE: Elegy HANDEL: Double Concerto (for two cellos or for violin and cello)
HANDEL-FEUERMANN: Adagio and Allegro (orch. Solow) HAYDN: Concerto
in D (original version); Concerto in C HAYDN-PIATIGORSKY: Divertimento (orch. Dahl) KIRCHNER:
Double Concerto (for violin and cello) LALO: Concerto HENRI LAZAROF: Second Cello Concerto
(written for Jeffrey Solow) MILHAUD: Concerto No. 1 POPPER:
Hungarian Rhapsody; Tarantella
SAINT-SAËNS: Concerto No. 1; Allegro Appassionato
SCHUMANN: Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH: Concerto No. 1 STEVENS:
Double Concerto (for violin and cello) TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile; Nocturne; Pezzo Capriccioso; Rococo
Variations
TOCH: Concerto VIVALDI: Double Concerto (for two
cellos); Selected Concertos
VOLKMANN: Concerto WALTON: Concerto Other repertoire upon Special Request
Discography: MENDELSSOHN: COMPLETE WORKS FOR CELLO
(with Doris Stevenson, piano)
(Centaur)
HENRI LAZAROF: SECOND CELLO CONCERTO
(with the Cincinnati Philharmonia, Gerhard Samuel, conductor)
(Delos)
HENRI
LAZAROF: MOMENTI FOR SOLO CELLO; DUO FOR CELLO AND PIANO; TRIO
(with Yoko Matsuda, violin, and Jerome Lowenthal, piano)
(Laurel)
ARENSKY: TRIO NO. 1 and TCHAIKOVSKY: TRIO
(with
Andres Cardenes, violin, and Mona Golabek, piano)
(Delos)
Grammy Award Nominee
DEBUSSY: TRIO, SONATA and INTERMEZZO
(with Camilla Wicks, violin, and Eckart Sellheim, piano)
(Music Masters)
TCHAIKOVSKY:
TRIO
(with Henri Temianka, violin, and Doris Stevenson, piano)
(Orion)
VOCALISE
(short works for violoncello
and piano)
(with Doris Stevenson, piano)
(Pelican)
HINDEMITH:
QUARTET FOR CLARINET, VIOLIN, VIOLONCELLO AND PIANO
(with Yukiko
Kamei, violin, Gary Gray, clarinet, and Brooks Smith, piano)
(Laurel)
MIKLOS ROZSA: THREE CHAMBER
WORKS
(Duo, Opus 8, with Albert Dominguez, piano, and Toccata
Capriccioso, Opus 36)
(Laurel)
PAUL CHIHARA: WIND SONG FOR VIOLONCELLO AND ORCHESTRA
(American Symphony Orchestra, Gerhard Samuel, conductor)
(Everest)
FAURÉ
AND SAINT-SAËNS: TRIOS
(with Christiaan Bor, violin, and
Jerome Lowenthal, piano)
(Pelican)
SCHOENBERG AND HAYDN: STRING TRIOS (Opus 53)
(with Kathleen Lenski, violin, and Paul Polivnick, viola)
(Desmar)
STRAUSS: PIANO QUARTET
(with
Irma Vallecillo, piano, Kathleen Lenski, violin, and Paul Polivnick, viola)
(Desmar)
FRENCH MASTERPIECES
FOR CELLO AND PIANO
(with Irma Vallecillo, piano)
(Desmar)
BARBER AND KODALY: SONATAS (Opus 4)
(with
Albert Dominguez, piano)
(Pelican)
RAVEL: DUO and TRIO
(with Christiaan Bor, violin, and Jerome Lowenthal, piano)
(Pelican)
RAVEL: TRIO
(with Jaime Laredo, violin, and Ruth Laredo, piano)
(Columbia)
Grammy
Award Nominee
LEON LEVITCH: QUARTET FOR FLUTE, VIOLA, CELLO
AND PIANO
(Orion)
LEON LEVITCH: QUINTET FOR FLUTE AND STRINGS
(Orion)
THE
ROMANTIC CELLO
(with Doris Stevenson, piano)
(ABC)
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