2024 ENSEMBLE-IN-RESIDENCE
The SOLI Chamber Ensemble
The SOLI Chamber Ensemble
SOLI Chamber Ensemble has been giving voice to 20th and 21st-century contemporary chamber music since 1994, mesmerizing audiences for nearly three decades with their engaging performances, ensuring the future of new music through educational initiatives, and continually renewing their commitment to the music of living composers through performances and commissions. Winner of the 2013 Chamber Music America and ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award and a 2020 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant, SOLI continues to champion new works, new contexts, and new audiences for the music of our time. SOLI’s engagement with the dynamism of 21st-century music includes a strong commitment to commissioning new works from established and emerging composers, encouraging an active artistic dialogue between creators, performers, and listeners. In its first 28 years, SOLI has single-handedly expanded the repertoire for its instrumentation, commissioning and premiering over 100 new works from some of today’s most exciting composers, including Shulamit Ran, Clarice Assad, D. J. Sparr, Kinan Azmeh, Darian Donovan Thomas, Reena Esmail, Armando Bayolo, Scott Ordway, Pierre Jalbert, Steven Mackey, Matthew Aucoin, Xi Wang, Alexandra Gardner, Carl Schimmel, Ned Rorem, Paul Moravec, Robert X. Rodriguez, Elliott McKinley, Peter Lieuwen, David Heuser, Tim Kramer, and many others. In addition to live performances, SOLI has presented several of these works on their commercially-released recordings The Clearing and the Forest, Música por un tiempo, Overland Dream, and Portraits, and in their digital productions. In addition to the 2013 and 2020 Chamber Music America awards, SOLI has received awards and grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Amphion Foundation, the Ditson Foundation, New Music USA’s Creative Connections, the Eastman Institute for Music Leadership, Meet the Composer, The Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts, the San Antonio Area Foundation, the Argosy Foundation, The Tobin Endowment, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture, among others. SOLI’s vision brings new music alive through a rich educational program for the next generations of creators and patrons. This platform cultivates new audiences for contemporary classical music and develops a support system for emerging composers and performers of all cultures and backgrounds. As Ensemble in Residence at Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) since 2008, SOLI performs on campus, conducts open rehearsals, advises, guides, and coaches student chamber groups, and works with student composers. Academic residencies have taken their artistry and experience to campuses throughout the U.S. and to Alba, Italy and in 2021, the group launched a digital online residency program.
Jeffrey Silberschlag
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Jeffrey Silberschlag:
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Jeffrey Silberschlag is music director and conductor of the Chesapeake Orchestra and River Concert Series, and serves as artistic director and head of music performance at St. Mary's College of Maryland where he is the Steven Muller Distinguished Professor in the Arts. He has appeared as guest conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Soloists, Orchestra Filharmonici di Torino, Symphony Orchestra of Rumania, Bulgarian Philharmonic, La Scala Virtuosi, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, and the Moscow Academy Chamber Orchestra. He also collaborated which such soloists Anne Akiko Myers, Mikhail Gantwarg, Hilary Hahn, Yi Jia Hou, and Lara St. John (violinists). In 2011 he received the Prize for Artistic and Cultural Activities from European Union of the Arts for his lifetime achievement in classical music as a conductor and trumpeter. Mr. Silberschlag is also a prominent trumpet performer on the international music circuit and has recorded as trumpet soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Czech Radio Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Maryland Bach Aria Group. He held principal trumpet positions with the Italian National Symphony RAI-Torino, Jerusalem Symphony, and the New York City Opera-National Company.
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Giuseppe Nova:
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Guiseppe Nova
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