PATRICK SOLURI is a NYC based composer of music for ballet, opera and film/TV. His love of telling stories through music is evident in a large body of work for the stage, screen and concert hall… from Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center, to the great opera houses of Europe. This includes 8 ballet scores commissioned and performed internationally, including Staatsballett Berlin, Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Dances Patrelle, and Intermezzo Dance Co. The ballet TO BE CONTINUED created with choreographer Xenia Wiest won the Grande Prixe at the Berritz International Competition. Operatic works include EMBEDDED, with librettist Deborah Brevoort, was winner of Frontiers 2013 and received a full production with Fort Worth Opera and Fargo Moorehead Opera; a series of 10 minute comic operas have performed worldwide (most popular is FIGARO’s LAST HANGOVER); and ALBERT NOBBS, a full length opera currently in development with Brevoort, was a finalist in the 2018 Pellicciotti Opera Prize and winner of Frontiers 2019 at Fort Worth Opera.