Harvey Sollberger is a composer, conductor and flutist whose work is represented on over 160 commercial recordings. He has given first performances of music by Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Mario Davidovsky, Donald Martino, Roger Reynolds and Charles Wuorinen, and has conducted first American performances of music by Morton Feldman, York Holler, Jean-Claude Risset and Iannis Xenakis. He was a co-founder of the Group for Contemporary Music in 1962, and subsequently led new music ensembles at the Manhattan School of Music, Indiana University and the University of California, San Diego. He was, as well, music director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 1998 to 2005 where he achieved acclaim for his performances of Mahler, Bruckner, Berlioz, Sibelius and Stravinsky, as well as for premières of many new works.