Biography

Magen Solomon joined the choral conducting faculty of USC's Thornton School of Music in 2004 and is in her twelfth season as Artistic Director of the San Francisco Choral Artists.   For the past thirteen years she has been Music Director of the Oakland Symphony Chorus, and she served as Interim Artistic Director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus for the 2000-01 season.

Dr. Solomon has prepared choruses for Michael Tilson Thomas, Kent Nagano, Nicolas McGegan, Michael Morgan, Vance George, Scott Parkman, and Wes Kenney, among others.  Under her leadership, the San Francisco Choral Artists (a chamber choir specializing in 20th/21st century music) has premiered over eighty choral works, performed at the 1998 American Choral Directors Association regional convention, and released two CD's So Gracious Is the Time (1999) and Music Among Friends (2005).

Ms. Solomon has taught and conducted at Smith and Mount Holyoke colleges, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Santa Clara University.  A graduate of Oberlin College, she holds Masters and Doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied conducting with Robert Fountain.

Her edition of Johannes Eccard's Newe deutzsche Lieder (1578) is published by A-R Editions (Madison, Wisconsin) in their "Recent Researches in Music of the Renaissance" series.