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Solum has performed as a flute soloist and chamber music player in 37 countries, with recital appearances in venues ranging from Queen Elizabeth Hall in London to the Frick Collection in New York to the Library of Congress in Washington. His engagements as soloist with orchestra have brought him to more than 50 cities and include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, English Sinfonia, Irish Radio-TV Orchestra, Kuentz Paris Chamber Orchestra, and Clarion Orchestra, among others. In 1983 he became the first American flutist to give recitals in the Soviet Union.

An influential figure in the early music movement, Solum has been artistic director of the Connecticut Early Music Festival and director of the annual Bath Summer School of Baroque Music in England. He has edited many editions of flute music for Oxford University Press, the publishers of his book, The Early Flute. His discography includes over 90 works for flute and reflects his interest in both modern and early flutes. Among his recordings are the Mozart Flute Concertos (EMI) and the Bach Flute Sonatas (Arabesque), all recorded on period instruments, and the concertos of Ibert, Jolivet, Honegger and Malcolm Arnold (EMI), which are recorded on modern flute. Solum has taught at Vassar Collge since 1969, Oberlin College Conservatory and Indiana University. He is a past president of the New York Flute Club, a former treasurer of the National Flute Association, and he has served on the music advisory panel for the National Endowment for the Arts.