Harvey Sollberger

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Harvey Sollberger (born May 11, 1938 in Cedar Rapids (Iowa) ) is an American flautist , composer and conductor .

life and work

Harvey Sollberger studied music at the University of Iowa and from 1960 to 1964 at Columbia University in New York City . His teachers included the flautists Samuel Baron and Betty Bang Mather , while Jack Beeson and Otto Luening taught him composition in New York . In New York, Sollberger directed various ensembles dedicated to new music, such as the Group for Contemporary Music he founded in 1962 with Charles Wuorinen , of which he remained director for 27 years. He was composer-in-residence at both the American Academy in Rome and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Sollberger taught at Columbia University, the Manhattan School of Music , Indiana University and most recently as a professor at the University of California in San Diego . From 1997 to 2005 he conducted the La Jolla Symphony. The composer Margaret Brouwer is one of his students .

Sollberger has received a number of awards (including a prize from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and two Guggenheim Fellowships ) for his compositions, which employ many new playing techniques and are primarily aimed at the flute, but also include orchestral works, vocal and chamber music . Several (LP) recordings were made with compositions by Harvey Sollberger or himself as an interpreter. a. for the labels "Composers Recordings" and " Nonesuch ".

literature

  • Text to the double LP Twentieth-Century Flute Music with H. Sollberger as interpreter, Nonesuch Records 1975, HB-73028

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personal data
SURNAME Sollberger, Harvey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American flautist, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Cedar Rapids, Iowa , USA