With an international background, PATRICK SOLURI is a NYC based composer of music for ballet, opera & film/TV. His love of telling stories through music is evident in a large body of work for stage, screen and concert hall... from Carnegie Hall & The Kennedy Center, to the great opera houses of Europe. This includes 8 ballet scores commissioned & performed internationally, including 18 performances at Staatsballett Berlin, and 8 sold-out performances at Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux. The ballet TO BE CONTINUED, created with choreographer Xenia Wiest, won the Grande Prixe at the Berritz International Competition, & the score is a finalist in the Kaleidescope 2020 international composers competition (with over 8,000 submissions). The ballet MADAME X has had three productions (1999, 2003, 2019) featuring American Ballet Theater principal Marcelo Gomes, and New York City Ballet principals Abi Stafford & Ask La Cour; FIRE & AIR premiered at The Kennedy Center with Mr. Soluri conducting; FANCY NANCY sold out 3 shows based on the hit children’s books. Additionally, he is a prolific composer of operatic works including EMBEDDED, with librettist Deborah Brevoort, which won Frontiers 2013 and received a full production with Fort Worth Opera & Fargo Moorehead Opera. His 10 minute comic operas have performed worldwide (incl. FIGARO’s LAST HANGOVER) with four premiering at Carnegie Hall. ALBERT NOBBS, a full length opera in development with Brevoort, was a finalist in the 2018 Pellicciotti Opera Prize and winner of Frontiers 2019 at Fort Worth Opera. Other works have been performed by American Lyric Theater, Vienne En Voix Festival, Nevada Opera, Center City Opera Theater, Urban Arias, Opera On Tap, Univ. of Albany, Juventas, L’arietta Singapore. Mr. Soluri has also composed numerous film scores, & has hundreds of cues in production libraries for film & TV (ScoreKeepers, SONY/ATV, ReelTracks). His music has been featured on various shows on TLC, LOGO & DISCOVERY in the US & Europe, including AMERICAS GOT TALENT. Other projects include a film trailer shown on 19,000 film screens across the US; orchestrating & arranging several episodes of the EMMY AWARD winning WONDERPETS (feat. Ertha Kitt & Jon Hendricks); arranging & producing Sean Lennon’s music for the film ALTER EGOS. more info: www.soluri.comSPECIALTIES: composing & orchestrating (incl. full orchestra), composing music for dance & voice (incl. ballet & opera), working with orchestras in studio & concert halls, realistic computer realization of orchestra, music producing & recording.