In April 2005 he obtained the title『Licenciado en Composición』(Master's degree) from the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte (IUNA) in Buenos Aires. Since 1993 he has regularly attended and participated in seminars given by Karlheinz Stockhausen. He passed the Konzertexamen (master) in electroacoustic composition at the Musikhochschule in Cologne on 5 December 2007. Currently he is working on a PhD in music education at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
In 2002 he received a commission from the CDMC (Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea, Madrid), in 2003 from the Kunststiftung NRW (Düsseldorf); in 2004 again from CDMC (Spain) and from the Landesmusikrat Bremen (Bremen Music Council), in 2011 from Eva Espoleta (Geneva). On 30 June 2004 his Concertango was premiered by the Orchestra of the Universität Bremen (cond.: Susanne Gläß).
Electroacoustic music for the experimental short film 'Bipolar' by the German director Axel Largo, Bonn, June 2006.
Music for the old (1951) scientific silent short film 'Verformung von Metallkristallen' (The Deformation of Metal Crystals, catalogue number C 611 of the IWF, Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Abteilung Hochschule und Forschung, Göttingen) by Günter Wassermann (Clausthal). Premiere: cinema Metrópolis, Hamburg, 10 June 2007.
As a pianist, his repertoire has four centers: classical music from the late Romanticism (such as Franz LisztorAlexander Scriabin), contemporary classical (John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg), Argentine composers (including tango; Ástor Piazzolla), and his own compositions – both as soloist and in different chamber music groups, notably:
His first professional recording as a pianist was in July 2006 in Geneva: together with the Saxophonist Eduardo Kohan he recorded the CD Tango Nómade.[5][6]
His first solo cd appeared in January 2010: Tango Monologues.[7] Recording ("digital only" versions, as EP) of his pieces『Acuarelas junto al río inmóvil』(2014), "Aphorismen" (2014), and『Sechs kleine Klavierstücke』von Arnold Schönberg (2014).
Juan María Solare also participated with Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame, a concert performance series with Vox Novus[8][9]
His compositions have been awarded prizes and awards in
Argentina Promociones Musicales 1990, Fondo Nacional de las Artes 1996, Tribuna Argentina de Compositores 1999, Tribuna Argentina de Música Electroacústica 2002, Federación Argentina de Música Electroacústica 2005,
United Kingdom (British & International Bass Forum 1999, Rarescale/Royal College of Music 2004),
As a pianist, Solare received awards at the following competitions:
Competition for Young Pianists『Cincuentenario de la Fundación Educacional Jrimián』(50th Anniversary of the Khrimian Educational Foundation) awarded by the Asociación Cultural Armenia, in Lanús (Buenos Aires) in November 1980.
As a member of the improvisation ensemble Die Kugel, 2nd prize at the『6. Internationaler Wettberwerb für junge Kultur 2000』(6th international competition for young culture) at the Saal Heinersdorff Pianohaus (Steinway-Haus) Düsseldorf, within the frame of the Festival『Düsseldorfer Altstadt Herbst』(SEP 2000).
In January 2002 he served on the piano jury in the competition Jugend musiziert.
In March 2004 jury in the National competition for young pianists "piccole mani" (Perugia, Italy) with a piece of him in each category as "obligatory piece".
In September 2004 he was on the jury (composition) in the competition『Xicöatl』(Salzburg).
2006 member of the jury of composition contest at the World Music Days (Stuttgart)
In 2007, Jury of the clarinet competition Maratón Musical Clariperú[12] with his piece Convalecencia as obligatory piece.
Thirteen CDs from different performers include at least one of his pieces:
"Panorama de la música argentina (compositores nacidos entre 1965–1969)". Fondo Nacional de las Artes. IRCO 318 (with three of his Siete Monedas for flute, viola and cello).[13]
"Pifferari – Werke für Flöte und Klarinette", Juli 2001. Regine Kuhn (flute) and Heidi Voss (clarinet); Edition Voss (Wiesbaden, Germany) [includes the "Suite Modal"]
"60x60: 2003" (various composers). Capstone Records CPS-8744 (released 2004). Includes Nice Noise (track 54).
Duo Eduardo Kohan – Juan Solare (saxophone & piano), Tango Nómade. 2006 (includes Tengo un tango, Sale con fritas, Tango en ciernes, Octango & Nómade)[6]
Trío Thelema. 2006 (Includes Hypnosis)
Mariana Levitin (cello) & Guillermo Carro (piano), in the CD Los compositores académicos argentinos y el tango II (1879–2007) / Argentine classical composers and the tango II (1879–2007). 2007. Pretal PRCD 138 (includes『Nómade』2nd movement from Sonatango in version for cello and piano).
"Parajes", Label IRCO 1263 (SKU: 7147) (2009), with Vacío Blanco performed by Silvia Dabul (piano) & Víctor Torres (bariton).
Tango Monologues, 2010. Juan María Solare (piano). (Features 12 pieces by Solare: Pasaje Seaver, Valsarín, Tengo un tango, Para Lisa, Milonga fría, Atonalgotán, Fragmentango, Akemilonga, Liebergmilonga, Talismán, Furor and Reencuentro.)
Argentine Cello, 2011. Zoe Knighton (cello) & Amir Farid (piano). Move Records (Australia), MD 3347. (includes Tengo un tango, Nómade -from Sonatango- and Talismán).
Tango Music Award 2011, 2011. Cafe Tango Orchestra (cond.: Judy Ruks). Cafe Tango Productions, Stuttgart 2011. Includes Barro sublevado (Track 15).
Ideas y emociones, 2012. Label Fonocal, Productor: Saúl Cosentino. Includes Reencuentro, recorded by Leonardo Suárez Paz (violin) + Juan María Solare (piano). (Track 15).
Pasión argentina (tango & chamber music), 2013. Label Ultramar Music Argentina. Ultramar ensemble: Paula Gasparini (flute), Tamara Moser (piano) and Pablo Pizarro (cello). Includes Tengo un tango (track 2) in version for flute, cello and piano.
Gardel al piano. Label Janus Music & Sound, 2014 (JMS-003). Juan María Solare, piano, EP with six tracks composed by Carlos Gardel.[14]
Himmelsrichtungen (Cardinal Points). Label Janus Music & Sound, 2016 (JMS-008). Juan María Solare, piano, EP with six tracks composed by himself.[15]
Expulsado de la Milonga for piano solo, by Douglas DaSilva, 2012.
Sin-Con Ciencia for piano solo, by Moxi Beidenegl, 2012.
tango sostenido for piano solo, by Jon Aveyard, 2012.
Napoleon's Tango for piano solo, by Daniel Arnold, 2012.
Today and Tomorrow for piano solo, by Bob Siebert, 2012.
Picture Beständigkeit des Nebels (Solidity of Mist), by walkala (Luis Alfredo Duarte Herrera), Salzburg, July 2007. 100 cm x 150 cm, acrylic on canvas.
Some of his works have been published by Dohr Verlag[16] (Cologne), Ricordi München[17] (Munich), and peermusic[18] (Hamburg).
Beside his compositional and pianistic activities he also has written for diverse publications, such as the New Grove (Solare 2001), La Sibila Sevilla, Doce Notas and ABC Madrid, Pauta and L'Orfeo (Mexico), Tempo (UK), as well as for the radio stations Deutsche Welle and Südwestfunk (SWF).
About 30 of his 200 published articles (mostly in Solare's mother tongue, Spanish) can be found online.[19]
Cabello, Natalia. 2006. "Sobre 'Pasaje Seaver' de Juan María Solare". Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla, Buenos Aires.
Choong Cheong, Yew. 2009. "An introduction to the solo piano works of three Latin American composers: Miguel del Aguila, Tania León and Juan María Solare", West Virginia University (College of Creative Arts), USA. Tutor: Dr. David Taddie.
Heward, Maria. 2008. "Argentine Piano music since 2000". BYU (Brigham Young University), USA.
Liberatori, Ligia. 1999. "Solare, Juan María". Emilio Casares Rodicio (editor), "Diccionario de Música Española e Hispanoamericana", Vol. 9 (Madrid, 2002), pages 1112–1113.
Peltzer Meschini, Carolina María & Zucherino, Leticia. 2008. "Reflexiones Sobre la Notación Musical en la Música Contemporánea Argentina". Universidad nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina.
Piehl, Cecilia Irene. 2007. "Argentinean Music for Flute Alone: an Annotated Bibliography". University Alabama, USA.
Piñero Gil, Carmen Cecilia. "caballero de la triste figura (jinete de quimérica montura), El". Article in the Gran Enciclopedia Cervantina, page 1601. Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, Editorial Casalia.
Piñero Gil, Carmen Cecilia. 2009. El caballero de la triste figura (jinete de quimérica montura): monólogo quijotesco de Juan María Solare. II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL CERVANTES Y EL QUIJOTE EN LA MÚSICA DEL SIGLO XX. TRADICIÓN Y VANGUARDIA. MÚSICAS CERVANTINAS EN AMÉRICA. Lecture on 4 November 2009, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).
Ruiz, Nora. 2008. "La relación entre la astronomía y la música académica argentina a partir del siglo XX". Departamento de Artes Sonoras y Musicales "Carlos López Buchardo", IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte), Buenos Aires.
Saftich, Amelia María. 2015. "La presencia del tango en la obra para clarinete del compositor Juan María Solare". Dissertation, 2015, Departamento de Artes Sonoras y Musicales of the UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes), Buenos Aires. Tutor: Lic. Cristina Vázquez.
Sauer, Theresa. 2007. "Notations 21" (includes his piece 'Palinsesto Senso'). American Musicological Association, USA.
Solare, Juan María. 2001. "Sáenz (Amadeo), Pedro (Alejo)". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
Solare, Juan María. 2009. "Die Neugierde ist grenzenlos (ein posthumes Interview mit Mauricio Kagel)". KunstMusik no. 12 (Summer): 10–39. ISSN 1612-6173
Stashik, Katharina. 2005. "Die Verwendung des Saxophons in der zeitgenössischen Musik nach 1970. Eine Analyse". Hochschule für Musik Köln (Germany).
