1. Sophie Solomon was born on 6 June 1978 and is a British violinist, songwriter and composer who fuses many different musical influences into her music.
13 Facts About Sophie Solomon
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Sophie Solomon was artistic director of the Jewish Music Institute, SOAS from 2012 to 2015 and is Chief Marketing Officer at high-growth music technology start-up ROLI.
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Sophie Solomon was one of Bell's Belles who campaigned for Martin Bell during his successful attempt to be elected MP for Tatton in the 1997 general election.
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Sophie Solomon studied at Cheltenham Ladies' College, and later at University College, Oxford graduating in 1999 with a First Class degree in Modern History and Russian.
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Sophie Solomon holds an MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics.
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Sophie Solomon developed a passion for the traditional musics of Eastern Europe, especially klezmer and gypsy styles, and travelled widely in the region, absorbing new sounds and influences along the way.
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Sophie Solomon became increasingly in demand, lending her violin playing to the likes of Rufus Wainwright, KT Tunstall, Paul Weller, Killing Joke and Theodore Bikel.
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Sophie Solomon is on the artistic advisory committee of the Genius of the Violin festival, the only such event in the world devoted entirely to the instrument.
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Sophie Solomon's regular touring band comprises Ian Watson, Daniel Glendining, Grant Windsor, Ali Friend and Stevie Pilgrim.
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In 2006, Sophie Solomon was Musical Arranger on Lindsay Posner's critically acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof starring Henry Goodman, which transferred to the Savoy Theatre on London's West End in May 2007.
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Sophie Solomon composed the score for Vlast, a film about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which has been screened at international film festivals, including Zagrebdox, where it won a Special Recognition Award, and as part of Al Jazeera's Witness strand.
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In 2009, Sophie Solomon was composer, arranger and musical director for Our Class, a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek directed by Bijan Sheibani at the Royal National Theatre in London.
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Sophie Solomon is Founder and Governor of Hackney New Primary School, a new Outstanding free school focused on music, which opened in Hackney in September 2015.