PATRICK SOLURI is a multi-talented composer based in New York City 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 commisioned and performed by Dances Patrelle, choreographed by Francis Patrelle, and have featured dancers from American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet including Sandra Brown, Marcelo Gomes, Jenifer Ringer and Stephen Hanna. Recent commissioned ballet scores include a work for the Staatsballett Berlin, choreographed by dancer Xenia Wiest, which premiered in Berlin, Germany, in January 2010, as part of their program "Shut Up and Dance: Reloaded," with 10 additional performances through July 2010, and has been extended into the 2010 / 2011 season with 6 additional performances. His first children’s ballet, “Fancy Nancy,” commisioned by the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet and with choreography by Francis Patrelle, premiered in March 2010 in Akron, Ohio, selling 7,000 tickets for only 3 performances. “Fancy Nancy,” comes to New York City on May 8th, 2010, for 2 additional performances at Symphony Space.

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, and a commissioned scene for the Manhattan School of Music Opera Studio. He was a 2008 Resident Artist in the American Lyric Theater’s (ALT) Composer Librettist Development Program mentored by Mark Adamo. ALT has since commissioned a one-act opera from Mr. Soluri with a libretto by Deborah Brevoort, based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe, to be workshopped and performed starting in the Fall of 2010. His frequently performed 10-minute comic opera “Figaro’s Last Hangover” was featured in a performance at Weill-Carnegie Hall on October 1st, 2009 by the Remarkable Theater Brigade.

Mr. Soluri has produced and released 3 CDs through Soluri Music: Fancy Nancy (2010), Murder at the Masque: Casebook of Edgar Allan Poe (2009) and Pas de Deux – Two Ballets by Patrick Soluri (2007) which comprises “Madame X” and “What Do We Do About Mother” and was recorded by the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. In addition "Continuum" and "Si Tu Veux" were released in 2010 as singles. All releases are available online at iTunes (worldwide) plus CD Baby, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon MP3, Lala, Zune, Limewire, Nokia, eMusic, Shockhound, and others. 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 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 a 2009 Emmy Award for best music. Patrick also started and runs the NY chapter of the film and TV networking group THE TABLE, based on the original LA group formed by Hollywood insider Marc Zicree. 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 many others, and are currently recording their first album. Recently, Mr. Soluri has begun to produce and record albums for independent solo artists.

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.

For more information visit: www.patricksoluri.com.