For a list of works with performance history, some with recordings in MP3 format,
click on one of the following links (divided by type of ensemble)

Large Ensemble Chamber Ensemble Solo Instrument

Vocal Electroacoustic Jazz-influenced works

Scores, parts and recordings are available upon request via email nolan@nolanstolz.com

Nolan Stolz (b.1981) has composed works for large ensemble, chamber ensemble, solo instruments, voice, and pieces involving electronics. His music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, South America, and across Europe, including festivals such as the 52nd 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.

Stolz has been commissioned by by the Alturas Duo, CCSU Chamber Players, Synchronix, LVA Jazz Ensemble, Las Vegas Music Festival Orchestra, SUNY-Stony Brook, Preston Fund/Artistic Grant, guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan, mezzo-soprano Leslie Ann Leytham, pianist Robert Plotkin, and clarinetist Peter Scuderi.

Stolz has over 25 works for solo instrument. What The Waves Tell Me (2009) for cello was awarded the Most Oustanding Student Composition at the College Music Society Northeast conference. Lullaby for Sam (2008) for guitar was commissioned and recorded by Boston guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan and appears on Aaron's 2010 release New Lullaby from the Six Strings Sounds label. His Legend of Waianapanapa Caves (2007) was written for violist David Hamano and pianist Alex Le, and was commissioned by the Find a Composer project of the Stony Brook Premieres! concert series at SUNY-Stony Brook. His solo organ piece Ascension to a Memory (2006) was awarded 2nd prize in the New Zealand Association for Organists International Composition Competition.

Stolz has written music for specific ensembles, such as And The Wind Cries Jimi (2010) and Burnin' Desire (2011) for the Alturas Duo, Catharsis II (2009) for the Avery Ensemble, Merritt (2008) for the Yale Brass Trio, and Table for Four (2005) for Fireworks (New York, NY).

His Mini-Concerto for Electric Guitar and Chamber Ensemble (2010) was commissioned and premiered by the Central Connecticut State University Chamber Players, Christopher Ladd soloist. Haystacks for orchestra (2004) was commissioned and performed by the Las Vegas Music Festival Orchestra, George Stelluto conducting. For this composition, Stolz was given the Max DiJulio award. He was given the Youth in America Award for his wind ensemble piece H2Eau (1999) which was premiered by the Milwaukee Concert Band in 2000.

He has composed several vocal works, including two one-act operas. The San Francisco Cabaret Opera performed three scenes from The Touch: A Black Box Opera in 2009. In 2011, Stolz composed Murdered By The Sky (for lyric coloratura soprano and fixed electronic media) for Dr. Michelle Latour to be premiered at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

His electroacoustic works have been performed at the eXtensible Electric Guitar Festival (Worcester, MA 2008), Electroacoustic Juke Joint (Cleveland, MS 2007), Trinity College Electroacoustic Festival (Hartford, CT 2010), Three Rivers Community College Humanities Festival (Norwich, CT 2010), Composers Voice concert series (New York, NY 2009), Brandeis University/Hartt School Exchange (2009), at Dartmouth College (2008), the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (2010), and at concerts in Eugene, OR (2005-07).

Haiku Settings: Winter is a "very impressive and athletic string quartet, reminiscent of Bartok." -- Sequenza21.com (Galen H. Brown, composer)
And The Wind Cries Jimi is "a beautiful homage to Jimi Hendrix" (un hermoso homenaje) -- El Ciudadano (Chilean newspaper)
The Stolz-Miner collaborative piece Begins, Before, Becomes is "closer to chamber music with elements of opera, but is still filled with the genuine spirit of late sixties' Art-Rock." --- The Uzbekistan Progressive Rock Pages (progressor.net)
Concerto for Electric Guitar and Symphpnic Band "is substantial yet also very accessible ... prog-rock Gershwin" -- Robert Carl, composer

Stolz is a composer and author member of ASCAP. His music is published by Stolen Notes, a publisher member of ASCAP.

EDUCATION

Stolz holds a D.M.A. in Composition from The Hartt School of the University of Hartford, where he studied with Robert Carl, Larry Alan Smith and Ken Steen. He holds an M.Mus. in Compostion from the University of Oregon where he studied with Robert Kyr and David Crumb. He also holds a B.M. in Composition and a B.M. in Jazz Studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he studied with Virko Baley.

Stolz has received individual instruction and/or participated in master classes with the following composers:

www.myspace.com/nstolz also has sound samples