David W Solomons' Music Site

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List of all of my works, with links to publishers, scores and recordings:
dwstitle.pdf

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Musik Fabrik

Les Productions d'Oz

Myscorestore / DaCapo Ltd

Arrangements

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About me

Born in 1953 in Oxford, England, my musical life began relatively late: wielding a violin at age 14 at the Municipal Grammar School in Wolverhampton . . . a.k.a. the Muni
I showed an immediate inclination to make up my own tunes.
The first of many musical collaborations also began around then, with a French pianist and a German trumpeter/organist/composer. The latter, Burkhard Mohr, now has his page on my site here

Eventually, after picking up modern languages at the Muni, with lots of help from family and aforementioned penfriends, and choosing the classical guitar as my preferred instrument, I moved on to Christ Church at Oxford University, to study French and German and, as a late blooming soprano, to vie with the visiting ladies in the College Choir for the top notes!. . . Well, eventually the voice gave in to the requirements of adulthood and crashed a fifth overnight, so I settled on alto as my preferred range. For a few months, however, I had the enviable knack of singing two notes at the same time: I wish I had recorded that!

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I am also making the acquaintance of many more musicians through the Web various bulletin board areas, (especially the Classical Music Makers) and doing online collaboration projects with several of them, as a composer or as a vocalist, or both. . . These include remakes of baroque music, nursery rhymes, re-arrangements of folksongs and of German carols, electronic realisations of my pieces from MIDI originals, multivocal performances of music by Hal Owen, Bill Sveglini, Edward Gold, Anthony Frost and many more.

The CD Wildlife in the Nursery is also a result of such collaboration. It is a pot pourri of nursery rhymes, some tradional and some original, blending my singing with the coloratura techniques of various animals as controlled and trained by Lorin Swelk

A gratifying proportion of my music is now published and is being performed by professional musicians. These include
Paolo Gavelli (Klezmer clarinet, ocarina and Fujara)
Serenade Duo (flute and guitar)
Duo Musaikon (Davide Compostella and Alessandro Balsimini) (clarinet and guitar)
Flubasstar - flute, guitar and double bass trio
Tubalaté - tuba and euphonium quartet
Paul Wehage - saxophone solo
Robert Billington - flute solo
X-tet - recorder trios
Spectrum - duet for bass sax and cor anglais,
Camerata Ensemble - string quartet
Thalia - wind quintet
Ronald Frost - organ solo
Stephen Taylor and Jonathan Leonard - alto and piano
Mark Crayton and James Janssen - alto and piano
Bruce Paine and Rex Button - guitar duos and guitar solos
and many more . . .