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 SOUTHERN STAR (ASCENDING) Viola
Harvey Sollberger SPILLVILLE Flute, Viola, and Guitar
Harvey Sollberger SWEET DANCE OF MORNING Violin
Harvey Sollberger SYMPHONY - BREATH A' MEME RIVE Flute Orchestra
4 fl/pic, 8 fl, 4 altfl, 4 bsfl, 4 cbsfl
Harvey Sollberger TAKING MEASURES Violin and Piano
Harvey Sollberger THIN MUSIC/THICK MUSIC Two Pieces for Twenty Players
20 PLAYERS: fl, ob, cl, bsn, altsx, hn, tpt, tbn, tba, pf, ele pf, perc(2), hp, vln (3), vla, vcl, cb
Harvey Sollberger THREE OR FOUR THINGS I KNOW ABOUT THE OBOE solo oboe and chamber ensemble (13) - 1011 0111 perc (2) hp pf vla vcl cb
Harvey Sollberger TO THE SPIRIT UNAPPEASED AND PEREGRINE Flute (Doubling Piccolo) and Clarinet (Doubling Bass Clarinet)
Harvey Sollberger TWO AND ONE vcl, 2 perc
Harvey Sollberger TWO MOTES FROM MUSICA TRANSALPINA Sop,Bar,fl,b.cl,hp,gtr,cel,4 perc.
Harvey Sollberger TWO OBOES TROPING 2 ob
Harvey Sollberger Two Pieces for Two Flutes 2 fl
Harvey Sollberger UNTITLED 2 Alto Flutes (or 2 Flutes)
Harvey Sollberger WHERE THE IOWA RIVER BENDS: 12-20-62 Cello and Contrabass
Harvey Sollberger WINTER'S TALE Two Flutes

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