{"id":668,"date":"2022-03-30T15:25:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=668"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:26:23","slug":"samuel-solomon","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/about\/contact-directions\/directory\/samuel-solomon\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Solomon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>Samuel Z. Solomon<\/strong>\u00a0teaches percussion at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Boston University, is Percussion Director of The Boston University Tanglewood Institute\u00a0(BUTI), and Artistic Director of the Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar. From 2007-2011 he was president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His book, \u201cHow to Write for Percussion,\u201d has received critical acclaim from composers, performers, and conductors worldwide and is available in three languages. He has\u00a0also authored three books on percussion playing and curated two collections of percussion etudes and solos. Solomon is founding member of the Yesaroun\u2019 Duo and the\u00a0Line C3 percussion group, from 2005-2010 he was percussionist-in-residence at Harvard University, and from 2003-2015 he was principal timpanist of the Amici New\u00a0York chamber orchestra. He can be heard as soloist and chamber musician on GM, Albany, Bedroom Community, New Focus, and Tzadik labels, as well as performing\u00a0the music of Bj\u00f6rk on her soundtrack to Matthew Barney\u2019s film \u201cDrawing Restraint 9.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He lives in Hull, Massachusetts with his wife, Kristy, and children, Nicolas, Leo,\u00a0and Luciana. Please visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.szsolomon.com\/\">szsolomon.com<\/a><span>\u00a0for more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6143,"template":"","bu_progs_degree-option":[],"dicipline":[125],"school":[133],"unit":[],"program":[148,154],"position":[123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/668\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu_progs_degree-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_progs_degree-option?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"dicipline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dicipline?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"unit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}