For a list of works with performance history, some with recordings in MP3 format,
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Large Ensemble Pieces (orchestra/wind ensemble) Chamber Ensemble Solo Instrument

Vocal works Pieces involving electronics Jazz-influenced pieces Miniatures Opera

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Nolan Stolz (1981-) has written pieces for large forces, such as orchestra or wind ensemble, but also for chamber ensemble, for solo instruments and pieces involving electronics.

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

Stolz has several unaccompanied instrumental works. His second cello sonata What The Waves Tell Me won the Most Outstanding Student Composition award at the 2009 College Music Society Northeast Conference. His solo organ piece Ascension to a Memory (2006) was awarded 2nd prize in the New Zealand Association for Organists International Composition Competition. His violin and piano piece Table for Two (2003) was premiered by former Cleveland Chamber Orchestra concertmaster Laura Martin-Propopyk with conductor/pianist/composer Virko Baley at the piano. His Legend of Waianapanapa Caves was written for violist David Hamano and pianist Alex Le for the Find a Composer project of the Stony Brook Premieres! concert series of 2007-08 at SUNY-Stony Brook.

His Haystacks for orchestra (2004) was commissioned and performed by the Las Vegas Music Festival Orchestra, under the direction of George Stelluto. The concert was the finale of the festival, with Hilary Hahn as guest violinist. The festival also premiered his string quartet, Haiku Settings: Winter (2004). Other composers recently with premieres at this festival include Huang Ruo, James M. Stephenson and Virko Baley. His wind ensemble piece H2Eau (1999) won him the Youth in America Award, and was premiered by the Milwaukee Concert Band in 2000.

His piece Gravitation (2004), a graphic notation piece for five to eight players, was performed by Synchronix, the CCSN faculty new music group, at the Las Vegas International New Music Festival in 2004 and several other concerts. It has been performed by the Oregon Composers Forum Ensemble, Nolan Stolz Chamber Players and the Hartt Composers Ensemble. Gravitation was premiered at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas with the new music group NEXTET, with composer Jed Distler as guest pianist. The Las Vegas International New Music Festival also commissioned his Haiku Settings: Summer (2004) for mixed ensemble with narrator. They also commissioned Vernacular Music (for electrified instruments) in 2003. The first year the festival ran, they programmed Haiku Settings: Autumn (2002) for mixed ensemble and Among the Stars (2001) for piano, bass, and percussion. The entire Haiku Settings cycle was premiered by The Matrix Music Collaborators in New York City in 2008.

Stolz has written music for specific ensembles, such as Catharsis II (2009) for the Avery Ensemble, Merritt (2008) for the Yale Brass Trio, and Table for Four (2005) for the Fireworks, a contemporary music ensemble from New York City. It was premiered at the Oregon Bach Festival, when Fireworks were the artists-in-residence at the Composer's Symposium.

His electronic music piece Guitar and Newspaper (for Juan Gris) (2005) has been presented at several concerts in Eugene, OR, the Electroacoustic Juke Joint in Cleveland, MS (2007), at the Brandeis University/Hartt School Exchange, at Dartmouth College (2008), and at the Extensible Electric Guitar Festival in Worcester, MA (2008).

In a review of its New York premiere, Galen H. Brown (Sequenza21.com) wrote that Haiku Settings: Winter is a "very impressive and athletic string quartet, reminiscent of Bartok."

Also compared to the progressive rock style, the Uzbekistan Progressive Rock Pages (progressor.net) describes the Stolz-Miner collaborative piece Begins, Before, Becomes as being "closer to chamber music with elements of opera, but is still filled with the genuine spirit of late sixties' Art-Rock."

EDUCATION

Stolz is pursuing a D.M.A. in Composition (currently ABD) from The Hartt School in West Hartford, CT, where his principal teachers were 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