Harvey Sollberger

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

Life and work

Harvey Sollberger studied music at the University of Iowa from 1960 to 1964 and at Columbia University in New York City. His teachers included the flutist Samuel Baron and Betty Bang Mather, in New York taught him Jack Beeson and Otto Luening in composition. In New York Sollberger led various ensembles, the New Music devoted themselves about which he founded in 1962 together with Charles Wuorinen Group for Contemporary Music, whose leader he remained for 27 years. He was composer -in-residence at both the American Academy in Rome as well as in the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Sollberger taught at Columbia University, the Manhattan School of Music, Indiana University, and most recently a professor at the University of California at San Diego. From 1997 to 2005 he conducted the La Jolla Symphony. Among his pupils was the composer Margaret Brouwer.

For his compositions, many of which use new playing techniques and especially the flute apply, but also include orchestral works, vocal and chamber music, Sollberger received a number of awards ( including an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, two Guggenheim Fellowships ). It resulted in several ( LP ) recordings of compositions Harvey Berger target or himself as a performer, including for the labels " Composers Recordings" and " Nonesuch ".

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