Ashley Solomon

Biography

Ashley Solomon, FRAM, FRCM, enjoys a successful career as a soloist, chamber musician and guest director in the UK, across Europe as well as the Americas, Far East and Australia. He is the director of Florilegium, the baroque ensemble he co-founded in 1991, and has made close to 40 recordings with them, many of which have garnered international awards. Since 2003 he has been training vocalists and instrumentalists in Bolivia, working on the remarkable collection of music held in archives by the Moxos and Chiquitos indigenous people. He formed Arakaendar Bolivia Choir in 2005 and Arakaendar Baroque Orchestra in 2007, and has directed them in concerts at major international festivals. In 2008 he was one of the first Europeans to receive the prestigious Bolivian Hans Roth Prize. Combining a successful career across both theory and practice, Ashley is also Head of Historical Performance at London’s Royal College of Music, having been appointed a professor in 1994. In 2014 he was awarded a Personal Chair, in July 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM), and in 2019 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music (FRCM). Since 2014 he has been working closely with the Royal Collection Trust to curate musical performances in their royal venues. Ashley has been a Tour Director for ACE since 2014.