Harvey Sollberger

Biography

Harvey Sollberger is a composer, conductor and flutist who has been active in many world musical centers. Performers of his music have included the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, Tanglewood, June in Buffalo, Interlink (Tokyo), Radio France and Pierre Boulez's Domaine Musical (Paris), TRANSIT (Belgium) and Incontri di Musica Sacra Contemporanea (Rome). His honors include the Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, two Guggenheim Fellowships and commissions from the Fromm, Naumberg and Koussevitzky Foundations, Music from Japan, Speculum Musicae, the New York New Music Ensemble, the NEA and various state arts councils. Sollberger was a co-founder of the Group for Contemporary Music in 1962, and has led new music ensembles at the Manhattan School of Music, Indiana University and the University of California, San Diego. In San Diego he was, as well, Music Director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 1997 to 2005. His orchestra performing credits include appearances with the San Francisco Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the June in Buffalo Chamber Orchestra and the Slee Sinfonietta. Harvey Sollberger has toured and recorded extensively, and his work as composer and performer is represented on over 130 commercial recordings. Numbered among his premieres are works by Babbitt, Carter, Davidovsky, Felder, Martino, Perle, Reynolds and Wuorinen, and the American premieres of music by Feldman, Holler, Risset, Scelsi, Schnittke, Stockhausen, Tiensuu and Xenakis. He has, in addition, been Resident Composer at the American Academy in Rome and Composer-in-Residence with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and Red Cedar Chamber Music. In his spare time Harvey Sollberger studies Italian, and has recently translated the autobiography of Italian flutist, Severino Gazzelloni. He currently lives in Iowa.

  • ACE Publications

    67 title(s)
    Composer Title SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Year
    Harvey Sollberger ADVANCING MOMENT FOR 6 PLAYERS fl, cl/bscl, vln, vcl, perc, piano
    Harvey Sollberger AS THINGS ARE AND BECOME
    Harvey Sollberger AURELIAN ECHOES Flute and Alto Flute
    Harvey Sollberger BIG BANG!
    flute choir - 12 or more flutes
    Harvey Sollberger CADENZAS:Mozart Concerto, K313 fl
    Harvey Sollberger CHAMBER VARIATIONS conductor & 12 players:fl,alfl/pic, ob,cl/bcl,bsn,pf,2perc,vln,vla,vcl,cb
    Harvey Sollberger CIAO, ARCOSANTI
    fl, ob, clar in A, bsn, vln, pf, bell tuned to A natural
    Harvey Sollberger COMPOSITIONS for flute, cello, piano, Conductor fl,vcl,pf(w/conductor)
    Harvey Sollberger Composition for Viola and Piano Viola and Piano
    Harvey Sollberger DECEMBER Alto Flute (or Flute)
    Harvey Sollberger DIVERTIMENTO
    fl,vcl,pf
    Harvey Sollberger DUO fl,pf
    Harvey Sollberger DVORAK AND THE SCARLET TANAGER flute, guitar, viola
    Harvey Sollberger ELEGY FOR IGOR STRAVINSKY Flute, Cello, and Piano
    Harvey Sollberger FANFARE MIX TRANSPOSE
    Harvey Sollberger FLUTES AND DRUMS 8 fl/picc/alto fl, 8 perc, 4 cb
    Harvey Sollberger GRANDIS TEMPLUM MACHINAE
    Three Choirs, Five Vocal Soloists, String Quintet, Brass Quintet, Percussion, and other diverse instruments
    Harvey Sollberger Her Ladyship Betty Bang Mather's Favorite Book of Tunes and Ayres Two Flutes
    Harvey Sollberger HUMBLE HEART Woodwind Quintet
    Harvey Sollberger IMPROMPTU Piano
    Harvey Sollberger INTERRUPTED NIGHT Clarinet, Violin, and Cello with Obbligato Flute and Piano
    Harvey Sollberger INTO LIGHT Flute
    Harvey Sollberger Iron Mountain Song trumpet, piano

    Additional Works

    ANGELS AND STONE - CF PETERS

    DOUBLE TRIPTYCH (DUO) - CF PETERS

    HARA - CF PETERS

    MET HIM PIKE HOSES - CF PETERS

    PASSAGES - non BMI publisher

    SOLOS - for violin and 5 instruments (1967)  12'  (McGinnis & Marx)

    IRON MOUNTAIN SONG for trumpet and piano - Columbia University Music Press