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Solomon-Glover has an international career singing
a wide repertoire ranging from the roots of American
song to opera, from Broadway to contemporary works.
He has made solo appearances in major halls throughout
the U.S. and Europe; and has performed with the
Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Philadelphia Orchestra,
among others. Mr. Solomon-Glover's appearances
include La Boheme, Robert Convery's I Have
a Dream at Carnegie Hall, Peter Maxwell Davies' Le
Jongleur de Notre Dame with the Da Capo Chamber Players,
and Britten's Cantata Misericordium with the New
Amsterdam Singers. Solo appearances include Hindemith's
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd under
Dennis Russell Davies at Carnegie Hall, and Richard
Einhorn's Voices of Light at Avery Fisher with
the Concordia Orchestra. He performed and recorded
Louis Karchin's American Visions with the Da Capo
Chamber Players, and his interpretation of Elliott
Carter's Syringa with the Ensemble Sospeso released
on CD/DVD in autumn 2000.
As an opera singer, Mr. Solomon-Glover has sung
with the Opera de Lyon, the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
in Spoleto, Itlay, the Savonlinna Opera Festival
in Finland, the Munich Biennale, Opera Ensemble
of New York, Opera at the Academy, Piedmont Opera,
Opera Delaware, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Opera
Ebony and the Liederkranz Opera. His diverse operatic
roles have included Escamillo in Carmen, the title
role in Rigoletto, Porgy (in a 35-city North American
tour of Porgy and Bess), and numerous leading roles
written specifically for him.
On Broadway, Mr. Solomon-Glover starred as Joe
in Hal Prince's Tony Award-winning production of
Showboat, which he toured nationwide. In the summer
of 1997 he appeared as guest soloist with the Boston
Pops for their nationally televised Fourth of July
celebration Pop Goes the Fourth. He has also been
a guest artist at the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival
for two years and the Chicago Jazz Festival.
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