Artistic Director of Choral Artists since 1995, Dr. Solomon has avidly cultivated engagements with living composers to bridge the gulf between composer, performer, and audience. Under her leadership, SFCA established the Composer-in-Residence program in 1999, the Bi-annual Composer's Invitational in 2001, and the New Voices Competition to help launch the artistic careers of young composers in 2005.

Under her leadership, San Francisco Choral Artists has premiered over 130 choral works, performed for the 2008 and 1998 Western Division conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, and released two CDs, Music Among Friends (2005) and So Gracious Is the Time (1999).

An innovative teacher and musician, Dr. Solomon joined the choral conducting faculty of the University of Southern California in 2004. She has also taught and conducted at Smith and Mount Holyoke colleges, and University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Santa Clara University, and she has studied conducting with Robert Fountain, Richard Pittman, David Becker, and Helmuth Rilling.

From 1992 to 2004, she was music director of the Oakland Symphony Chorus, and has been a guest conductor and adjudicator for festivals in the US and Asia. She has prepared choruses for Michael Tilson Thomas, Kent Nagano, Nicolas McGegan, Christoph von Dohnanyi, and Michael Morgan, among others.

She is editor of the Research Column of the Choral Journal, and her edition of Johannes Eccard's Newe deutzsche Lieder (1578) is published by A-R Editions.

Groups Directed

San Francisco Bach Choir

San Francisco Choral Artists