His father, Stanley Solomon, was a principal violist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Lenny studied under violinists Albert Pratz and Steven Staryk.
[4][5] Myles & Lenny performed and recorded during most of the 1970s, won the 1976 Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year and then parted ways.
In 1997, with violinist Moshe Hammer and pianist Bernie Senensky, he founded The Galaxy Trio, which blended classical and jazz styles and recorded one CD.
[7] In 2000 Solomon established the chamber group Trio Norté, which released one album in 2002,[8] and the violin ensemble Bowfire[9] which made its debut performance at Expo 2000 in Hanover Germany.
[10] In 2015, Lenny enlisted Marc Ganetakos and longtime collaborator and bassist Shelly Berger to help write and perform on his new album, The Blues Violin.