Santa Clara University

Phone: 408 554 4591

Email:
msolomon@scu.edu

Room number: 204

Courses taught:

Concert Choir, Chamber Singers

Magen Solomon

Director of Choral Activities

Newly appointed in the fall of 2012, Dr. Solomon brings a wealth of experience with University, professional and community choirs to the SCU Music Department. An innovative teacher and conductor, she is active across the US and abroad as a clinician, teacher, and guest conductor, and she has collaborated on performances of major choral works with Michael Tilson Thomas (San Francisco Symphony), Kent Nagano (Berkeley Symphony), Nicolas McGegan (Philharmonia Baroque), Christoph von Dohnányi (Los Angeles Philharmonic), and with Helmuth Rilling, among others.

Since 1995 she has served as Artistic Director of the San Francisco Choral Artists (a semi-professional chamber choir specializing in contemporary a cappella choral works). Under her leadership SFCA has premiered over 170 choral works, performed at conferences of Chorus America and the American Choral Directors Association, been awarded the ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award, and has released three CDs: With Strings Attached (2011), Music Among Friends (2005), and So Gracious Is the Time (1999). The ensemble has collaborated with nationally known instrumental ensembles including The Alexander String Quartet, Veretski Pass, The Whole Noyse, Sonos Handbell Ensemble and others. She is in her third season as Artistic Director of the Stockton Chorale and Master Chorale and served for twelve years as Music Director of the Oakland Symphony Chorus. 

From 2004-2010 Dr. Solomon taught in the graduate and undergraduate programs of the Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the University of Southern California?s Thornton School of Music. She has also taught and conducted at Smith and Mount Holyoke colleges, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is editor of the ?New Voices In Research? column in the Choral Journal, Chair of the ACDA Herford Dissertation Prize Committee, and has published an edition of Johannes Eccard's "Newe deutzsche Lieder?(1578) with A-R Editions.