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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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About Me

General Info

General Location: University City
Company/Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Community Role: Composer
Gender: Male

Musical Info

Instrument(s): Voice

Additional Info

Web site: www.reverbnation.com/tonysolitro
About me: Tony Solitro grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts. While still in high school he was admitted to a program at The College of the Holy Cross which allowed him to begin studies in composition and music theory with John Mallia. He received a B.M. from the Hartt School at the University of Hartford where he studied with Larry Alan Smith and Robert Carl and an M.M. from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA where he was a recipient of the Nadia and Lily Boulanger Scholarship and studied composition with Paul Brust and computer music with Jeremy Van Buskirk. He was selected as a composition fellow at Brevard Music Center for the summer of 2008, where he studied with Kevin Puts and Robert Aldridge. Tony has also studied with David Dzubay as a visiting student at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and has participated in master classes with Joan Panetti, Scott Wheeler, Claudio Gabriele and John McDonald.

Tony’s music was recently heard on Dinosaur Annex’s Young Composers Festival and at the Regattabar Jazz Club at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA. He thrives on interdisciplinary collaborations and greatly enjoys working with singers, instrumentalists, dancers, poets and artists. Other career highlights to date include collaborations with theatre directors to compose scores for Molière's "Learned Ladies" and Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Tony is currently residing in Philadelphia, where he is a Benjamin Franklin PhD Fellow at The University of Pennsylvania.
Hometown: Worcester, MA