is a composer/lyricist/librettist, music director, conductor, singer, actor, accompanist, arranger, and educator. He serves on the full-time faculty at Princeton University as Lecturer in Music Directing and Choral Programs in a joint appointment between The Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of Music. He is the Founding Director of the Princeton Playhouse Ensembles (consisting of the Playhouse Choir and Playhouse Orchestra) and directs the Trenton Youth Singers through Trenton Arts at Princeton. As a conductor and ensemble director, Solon aims to facilitate creative and welcoming communities full of experimentation, growth, wonder, and imagination! 

Solon works as a Music Director & Conductor for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Regional events and shows. Recent selected projects include Second Stage’s 2022 Gala, The Shape of a Child (Avaloch Music Institute), The Hello Girls (Princeton University), The Fantasticks (Infinity Theatre Company), and Romeo and Juliet (Saratoga Performing Arts Center). Solon has also served as a Music Director/Pianist for artists ranging from Broadway’s Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mykal Kilgore, Brittney Mack, Will Roland, and Andrew Barth Feldman to Billy Joel, most recently appearing as “1990s Billy Joel” in the official music video for Billy Joel’s 2024 single “Turn the Lights Back On.”

Recent composition and writing credits include Thebes (Rattlestick Theater and Quinnipiac University), The Swallow and the Tomcat (Yale Summer Cabaret’s “Verano Season”), and The Tempest (Yale School of Drama). Solon's original concert music has been performed by the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, The Baltimore Choral Arts Society, UMBC’S RUCKUS Ensemble, The Whiffenpoofs, The Walden School Players, The Peabody Preparatory Percussion Ensemble, and more. He has also written and arranged music for video games, television, choirs, and a cappella groups. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Walden School, a music education program focused on innovative and inclusive music composition/improvisation pedagogy and on modeling community building through music. 

Solon previously taught music and theater at The Dalton School After-School Program and has given lectures and full-length concerts on American music history through the Road Scholars Program. He teaches voice, piano, and musicianship lessons through his private studio and can often be found playing piano for ensembles and events around NYC. He has been an improv pianist for The Story Pirates comedy group and an accompanist, vocalist, and arranger with The Young People’s Chorus of NYC. Solon holds a B.A. in Music (Intensive) and Theatre Studies, with distinction in both majors, from Yale University, where he served as music director of the Yale Whiffenpoofs and Duke’s Men of Yale. Solon lives with his spouse and frequent collaborator Emma H. Sway, along with his dog Pippin, in New York City.