PATRICK SOLURI is a multi-talented composer based in New York City who specializesin dramatic music for ballet, opera, orchestra, film & TV. His love of telling stories through music is evident in his large body of work for the stage, screen and concert hall. His music is performed regularly at Carnegie Hall, around the US and in Europe.

His most recent ballet score, for "To Be Continued" (2009), was commissioned by Staatsballett Berlin and choreographed by Xenia Wiest. This ballet had 18 performances in Berlin at the Komische Oper throughout 2010 and 2011, having been extended into a second season. His other ballet scores "Murder at the Masque: Casebook of Edgar Allan Poe" (2009), "What Do We Do About Mother" (2007), & "Madame X" (1999), were commissioned by Dances Patrelle, and "Fancy Nancy" (2010) was commissioned by the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet; all were choreographed by longtime collaborator Francis Patrelle. Since their first collaboration, "Ngoni" (1997), their ballets have featured soloist and principal dancers from American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet including Sandra Brown, Marcelo Gomes, Jenifer Ringer and Stephen Hanna.

Mr. Soluri's operatic works include "The Inferno of Dante: Canto V" (2002), performed by New York City Opera as part of VOX 2003: Showcasing American Composers, and a scene commissioned for the Manhattan School of Music Opera Studio in 1999. Recently he has written a series of 10-minute comic operas that have premiered over the last 3 years in sold-out performances at Weill-Carnegie Hall by the Remarkable Theater Brigade; this includes "Figaro's Last Hangover" (2001), "The Tell Tale Cell Phone" (2010) and four one-minute 'opera haikus' in "The Tragedy of Count Alfredo von Niebelungen" (2011). He began working with American Lyric Theater (ALT) in 2007 as a Resident Artist in the Composer Librettist Development Program, mentored by Mark Adamo, and include the short opera, "Adam & Eve" (2007). He was commissioned by ALT to write the one-act opera, "Embedded" (2010/2011), as part of the Poe Project trilogy, which had a piano/vocal workshop performance at Symphony Space in November 2010, followed by an orchestral workshop showcase in November 2011 attended by dozens of opera companies as part of Opera Americas New Works Forum.

Mr. Soluri has composed and produced several film scores, as well as hundreds of tracks of music for film & TV. He is currently working with Sean Lennon on the score for "Alter Egos" (2011) by director Jordan Galland. Mr. Soluri has also worked on the multiple Emmy-winning 3rd season of the children's show, "The Wonderpets." Film scores include "Confined" (2010), "A Lesson in Biology" (2007) and "Dead Serious" (2005). In 2000 he was selected to be in the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in LA 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 extensively on the hit show "America's Got Talent."

Mr. Soluri is also the recipient of numerous awards and honors including 2004, 2005, 2011 and 2012 ASCAP Plus awards, and from 1998 to 2000 was composer-in-residence with the Manhattan Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Soluri hasalso produced and released several CDs and singles, through Soluri Music, which are available online via iTunes worldwide, CD Baby, Rhapsody, Napster and Amazon among others.

Mr. Soluri studied at Bennington College, Manhattan School of Music (BM), & University of Louisville (MM) as the Moritz von Bomhard Fellow for opera composition. Teachers have included Aaron Kernis, Tobias Picker, Nils Vigeland, Allen Shawn, Peter Golub & Giampaolo Bracali. For more information visit: www.patricksoluri.com.