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 R&B legend Ray Charles as his bassist. In the following years he became a busy musician on the New York scene and began working as a composer for TV commercials. He's scored over 500 national ads for clients like Google, AMEX, Pepsi, L'Oreal 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.

 

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 diverse career include producing the music for the H&M x Balmain runway show, composing the theme to A&E's Parking Wars, teaching masterclasses in production and composition and SUNY Purchase (where he is a Visiting Artist), and curating for the inaugural season at the innovative Brooklyn venue National Sawdust.

 

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