“His intonation is irreproachable, his tone uncommonly pure, and he communicates directly with a musical sensitivity that demands and holds the attention,” said The Los Angeles Times about cellist Jeffrey Solow whose impassioned and compelling playing has enthralled audiences throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. His multi-faceted career embraces performances as recitalist, soloist with orchestra and chamber musician, as well as teaching, recording, writing and lecturing on a variety of cellistic topics, and arranging and editing music for the cello.

A Los Angeles native, Jeffrey Solow studied with the distinguished cellist Gabor Rejto and the legendary Gregor Piatigorsky and was assistant to Piatigorsky at USC. He went on to win the Young Musicians Foundation's first Gregor Piatigorsky Award and New York's Young Concert Artists Award and made his NY debut on the YCA series. His wide-ranging interests include scuba diving and underwater photography, protozoology and paleontology and he graduated with a degree in Philosophy magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA.

Mr. Solow's orchestral solo repertoire encompasses performances of more than 40 concertos as well as many shorter works for cello and orchestra. His numerous and varied concerto appearances extend from the National Defense Orchestra of Taiwan and the Vietnam Opera & Ballet Orchestra in Hanoi to a tour with Alaska's Arctic Chamber Orchestra, as well as less exotic appearances including the Los Angeles Philharmonic (including the Hollywood Bowl), Japan Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra (also recording with them), Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the symphonies of Seattle, Alabama and Milwaukee, and many other orchestras in the United States and abroad. As a recitalist he has performed in New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Norway, France, Austria, Korea, Mexico, Nassau, Guatemala and Nicaragua. For ten years he was a member of The Amadeus Trio, and he has been a guest artist at the chamber music festivals in Santa Fe (New Mexico), Spoleto (Italy), Sitka, Fairbanks and Juneau (Alaska), El Paso (Texas), the Grand Canyon (Arizona), Amsterdam, Pro Musica (Mexico), Yong-Pyeong (Korea), Music at Gretna (Pennsylvania), the Park City Beethoven Festival (Utah), the Master Players Festival (Delaware), Sedona (Arizona), Newport (Rhode Island), and the Summit and Marlboro festivals in New York State.

Mr. Solow’s numerous recordings, two of which have garnered Grammy Award nominations, can be found on the Delos, Kleos, Centaur, New World, ABC, Columbia, Laurel, Everest, Capstone, Telefunken and Music Masters labels, and include first recordings of works by distinguished composers with whom he collaborated: Paul Chihara, David Bennett Thomas, Miklós Rózsa, and Henri Lazarof.  Terry Sanders’ award-winning Churchill Films documentary about Jeffrey Solow, "To Be a Performer," and the Sitka Festival's "Music from the Forest to the Sea" have been broadcast on PBS, and he also can be seen in Peter Rosen’s film about Jascha Heifetz, "God’s Fiddler." Outside the US, his performance of the Lalo Cello Concerto with the Prime Symphony Orchestra in Seoul was broadcast throughout Southeast Asia on the Korean Classical Music Cable Channel and he was featured on Korea's top-rated musical variety show "Open Concert" on KBS. In July of 2023, he completed his 13^th cycle of Bach’s Suites for solo cello at Bargemusic in NYC.

Jeffrey Solow also communicates effectively away from the cello. During his five years as an Affiliate Artist his lively and casual ‘Informances’ were enthusiastically received in residencies from Florida to California. His editions of significant works in the cello repertoire have been published by highly distinguished music publishers in Europe and the US including Breitkopf, Peters, Elkan-Vogel, International Music Company, Latham Music, Ovation Online Editions, and Henle Urtext editions. He has been editor of the Violoncello Society Newsletter and for three years was editor of the “Cello Forum” in American String Teacher magazine. A regular contributor to The Strad (London), Strings, and American String Teacher, he has also been published in Seminars in Neurology and the book, Current Research in Arts Medicine. The American String Teachers Association selected two of his articles for their publication featuring the top ten articles from AST’s Cello Forum. A noted authority on healthy and efficient string playing, he is frequently invited to give lectures and presentations on the subject.

In addition to performing and writing, Jeffrey Solow is a past president of the American String Teachers Association, chaired their prestigious National Solo Competition and served on ASTA’s Executive Board. Internationally, he served as a judge for the Markneukirchen International Cello Competition in Germany, the 5^th Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China, and the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Novosibirsk, Russia. Mr. Solow is also past president of the Violoncello Society, Inc. of New York, the nation’s second oldest cello society.

Recognized worldwide as an outstanding teacher, Jeffrey Solow has presented master classes throughout the United States as well as in Switzerland, Austria, Korea, Guatemala, Norway, France, Argentina, Canada, at the Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan, Nanning, Harbin and WuHan conservatories in the Peoples Republic of China, and at the Chiang Kai-Shek National Library in Taiwan. He has been a faculty member at UCLA, California State University at Northridge, the University of Michigan, and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, taught cello and chamber music at the renowned Chautauqua Institution in New York for eight summers, and has been artist/teacher at the Gregor Piatigorsky International Festival for Cellists at USC. Jeffrey Solow has been professor of cello at Temple University since 1989 and was presented with the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2020.

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