Stolz Nolan (1981)
USA
Composer, theorist, drummer, teacher, living in Las Vegas.
English
Nolan Stolz is a composer-theorist living in his hometown of Las Vegas, NV. As a Visting Lecturer at UNLV, Dr. Stolz teaches undergraduate and graduate music theory and composition.
Stolz's compositions have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, South America, and across Europe, including festivals such as the Academie Internationale d'Ete de Nice (FRANCE), Suolahti International Summer Music Festival (FINLAND), Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, Electroacoustic Juke Joint, eXtensible Electric Guitar Festival, Las Vegas International New Music Festival, Las Vegas Music Festival, Music Today Festival, and the Oregon Bach Festival. He has been commissioned by the Alturas Duo, CCSU Chamber Players, Synchronix, LVA Jazz Ensemble, Las Vegas Music Festival Orchestra, SUNY-Stony Brook, Aaron Larget-Caplan, Leslie Ann Leytham, Robert Plotkin and Peter Scuderi. Stolz was awarded the Max DiJulio Composition Prize, second prize in the New Zealand Association of Organists International Competition, and the Most Outstanding Student Composition Award at the 2009 College Music Society Northeast Conference. His Lullaby for Sam was recently released on Aaron Larget-Caplan's New Lullaby CD from the Six Strings Sounds label. Other commercial releases are forthcoming.
As a music theorist, Stolz has given lectures at Queen's University (Canada), The Hartt School, MACRO Musicians' Workshop, and at Society of Composers Inc.'s regional and national conferences. He has presented additional research at College Music Society's regional and national conferences. His article on Schoenberg's fourth string quartet is available online.
As artistic director of New Music Hartford, Stolz curates concerts featuring works by living composers.
Stolz is also a drum set performer in both the rock and jazz idioms, working with notable bands such as Swinging Popsicle and Art Rock Circus. He appears on several commercial recordings, one of which includes jazz greats Ron Carter, Phil Woods, Monty Alexander, Kenny Burrell and several others.
Dr. Stolz holds degrees from The Hartt School, University of Oregon, and UNLV. His composition teachers include Virko Baley, Robert Carl, David Crumb, Robert Kyr, Larry Alan Smith and Ken Steen.
Web: http://www.nolanstolz.com/ (2011)
Stolz's compositions have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, South America, and across Europe, including festivals such as the Academie Internationale d'Ete de Nice (FRANCE), Suolahti International Summer Music Festival (FINLAND), Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, Electroacoustic Juke Joint, eXtensible Electric Guitar Festival, Las Vegas International New Music Festival, Las Vegas Music Festival, Music Today Festival, and the Oregon Bach Festival. He has been commissioned by the Alturas Duo, CCSU Chamber Players, Synchronix, LVA Jazz Ensemble, Las Vegas Music Festival Orchestra, SUNY-Stony Brook, Aaron Larget-Caplan, Leslie Ann Leytham, Robert Plotkin and Peter Scuderi. Stolz was awarded the Max DiJulio Composition Prize, second prize in the New Zealand Association of Organists International Competition, and the Most Outstanding Student Composition Award at the 2009 College Music Society Northeast Conference. His Lullaby for Sam was recently released on Aaron Larget-Caplan's New Lullaby CD from the Six Strings Sounds label. Other commercial releases are forthcoming.
As a music theorist, Stolz has given lectures at Queen's University (Canada), The Hartt School, MACRO Musicians' Workshop, and at Society of Composers Inc.'s regional and national conferences. He has presented additional research at College Music Society's regional and national conferences. His article on Schoenberg's fourth string quartet is available online.
As artistic director of New Music Hartford, Stolz curates concerts featuring works by living composers.
Stolz is also a drum set performer in both the rock and jazz idioms, working with notable bands such as Swinging Popsicle and Art Rock Circus. He appears on several commercial recordings, one of which includes jazz greats Ron Carter, Phil Woods, Monty Alexander, Kenny Burrell and several others.
Dr. Stolz holds degrees from The Hartt School, University of Oregon, and UNLV. His composition teachers include Virko Baley, Robert Carl, David Crumb, Robert Kyr, Larry Alan Smith and Ken Steen.
Web: http://www.nolanstolz.com/ (2011)