Ariel Sol (2000) is at the cutting edge of musical arts as an LA-based composer, harpist, and interactive media producer. Originally hailing from Chicago, he is passionate about channeling multidisciplinary innovation to foster community. Storytelling, ancestry, technology, and rebellion intersect to inform his dynamic approach to the musical media of today.

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Winner of the 7th USA International Harp Competition Ruth Inglefield Composition Contest and 2023 SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) Allen Strange Award, Ari’s work can be experienced worldwide. A musical phenom, his performances include 3rd Prize Winner of the 2024 World Harp Competition, a 2022 Young Artist Residency on American Public Media’s “Performance Today,” and two spotlights as Featured Young Composer of the American Harp Society (2017 & 2023). Ari recently graduated from the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in composition and harp while pursuing concentrations in entrepreneurship, electronic music, folklore/ethnomusicology, and mathematics.

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An active community organizer and arts administrator, Ari was undergraduate chair of the Jacobs School of Music Student Representative Committee and has served in leadership roles for such organizations as the IU Performing Arts Council, Student Composers Association, and New Voices Opera. He was a volunteer performer for Classical Connections, also working as the Lotus Foundation’s Artist Liaison to coordinate the 2021 Lotus World Music and Arts Festival. Through his synthesis of experiences and identities, Ari brings a genre-defying, collaborative approach to contemporary media practices.