Viola
Rubin Academy of Music (Tel Aviv, Israel)
BA Northern Illinois University
COURSES TAUGHT:
Applied Viola
CONTACT INFORMATION:
773-325-4371
About
Rami Solomonow is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv, Israel where he studied with Oedoen Partos. He was a member of the Israel Chamber Orchestra until 1972 and received prizes in viola and chamber music from the American-Israel Foundation. In 1973, Mr. Solomonow moved to the US where he studied with Shmuel Ashkenasi at NIU.
From 1974 to 1995 he served as Principal Violist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 1995 he left the Opera to become a founding member of the Chicago String Quartet which was the Quartet in residence at DePaul University and Taos School of Music until 2004.
Mr. Solomonow has been a faculty member at DePaul University since 1981 and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in numerous concerts, music festivals and summer music schools in the United States, Israel, Japan and South America. Mr. Solomonow is a member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians and in recent years has performed chamber works with Menachem Pressler, Leonard Rose, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz, Edgar Mayer, Christoph Eschenbach, Midori, Robert McDonald and members of the Guarneri and Julliard Quartets. He has also been a guest violist with the Vermeer, Fine Arts, Audubon and Cassatt String Quartets.
Mr. Solomonow has performed on live television and radio broadcasts and has recorded with the Vermeer Quartet, Chicago String Quartet, Chicago Chamber Musicians, and as a solo violist with the DePaul Wind Ensemble.
A recent recording of a Mozart chamber works for strings and winds with the Chicago Chamber Musicians has been nominated to the Grammy award.