Darren Solomon

Darren Solomon is a Brooklyn-based composer, producer, bassist and keyboard player. His professional career began at the age of 19, when he joined the touring band of music legend Ray Charles as his bassist. In the following years, in addition to touring internationally and performing around NYC, he began working as a composer for TV commercials. He's scored ads for clients like Google, AMEX, Pepsi, L'Oreal, Honda and MnM's, earning a Best Music Clio and a Cannes Gold Lion.

 

Darren is Creative Director and Partner at Quiet City Music + Sound, a music production house with studios in New York and San Paulo, Brazil.

 

Maintaining an avid interest in the intersection of art and technology, Darren created the crowdsourced web-based music project In Bb 2.0, which became a viral hit, featured on NPR, CNN, and the Evolution of The Music Video series at BFI, London.

 

Darren and co-composer Chris Jordão wrote the score for the Netflix Brazil drama Invisible City, streaming in late 2020.

 

As a venue for his songwriting and production, he created the project Science for Girls, which was featured in Electronic Musician and KCRW's Song of The Day.

 

Other highlights in a unique career include producing and DJ'ing the music for the H&M x Balmain runway show, composing the theme to A&E's Parking Wars and curating for the inaugural season at the innovative Brooklyn venue National Sawdust. As a visiting artist at SUNY Purchase, Darren enjoys working with the next generation of musicians and producers, teaching masterclasses in music production and composition.

 

Darren maintains a busy schedule performing, exploring applications for music in new media, composing for dance companies, and curating and producing live shows.