Cellist Ben Solomonow has gained recognition for his “passionate and accurate” performances — “excellent throughout” (Henry Fogel, Fanfare), and has forged a multifaceted career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and recording artist whose performances have taken him to major concert halls and festivals across North America, Europe, and Asia. A prize winner of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, he has been featured on NPR and WFMT and has appeared as soloist at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Ravinia, and the Seoul Arts Center. Recent concerto highlights include performances with the Pacific Symphony under Carl St. Clair and the Colburn Orchestra under Xian Zhang.

A devoted chamber musician, Solomonow has collaborated with many of today’s leading artists, including Mitsuko Uchida, Emanuel Ax, Gary Hoffman, Josef Silverstein, Miriam Fried, Roberto Diaz, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Meng-Chieh Liu, Hsin-Yun Huang, Ilya Kaler, Vadim Gluzman, Anton Nel, Atar Arad, Rami Solomonow, and members of the Tokyo, Vermeer, Juilliard, Borromeo, Brentano, Cleveland, Calidore, and Pacifica Quartets. His festival appearances include return visits to the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia Music Festival, Ojai Music Festival, Festival Mozaic, North Shore Chamber Music Festival, Red Rocks Chamber Music Festival, and performances with the Chicago Chamber Musicians.

His latest album collaboration is on Visions and Dreams with members of the ensemble Art of Elan on Phenotypic Records, comprising entirely of music by today’s most innovative and sought-after composers. He is also featured on Shapeshifter, a Delos Records recording devoted to the music of Erwin Schulhoff. The album seeks to bring renewed attention to Schulhoff’s compositions, a body of work that was suppressed by the events of the Second World War, and was selected by Alex Ross of The New Yorker for one of his preferred listening playlists. His recordings also include Eric Whitacre's Sing Gently on the UNQUIET label, a project consisting of both instrumental and choral arrangements created at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of one of the largest virtual musical collaborations ever undertaken, connecting people around the world through a shared musical experience. He performs as a member of the live instrumental quintet at the heart of the recording. 

Solomonow holds degrees from the Colburn Conservatory of Music and the University of Southern California, where his principal teachers were Clive Greensmith, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Gary Hoffman. Other notable mentors have included Hans Jensen and Arnold Steinhardt.

A Stradivari Society Artist, Solomonow performs on an 1898 Vincenzo Postiglione cello generously loaned by the Stradivari Society of Chicago.