Peter Stoll
- Clarinet Professor at the University of Toronto
- Guest soloist with orchestras in Canada and the
United States
- Founding coordinator of the University Settlement School Chamber music program
Full Biography
A prize-winner in the 1987 International Clarinet Society Competition, Peter Stoll was also that year Solo Clarinettist with the World Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales in Berlin and Vienna, which was broadcast on live television across Europe on the occasion of Berlin's 750th Jubilee, crossing the Berlin Wall to perform on both sides. In 1989, Peter's trio Triomphe! won first prize in Chamber Music at the National Competitive Music Festival, for whose 50th anniversary edition Peter was invited back as Woodwind adjudicator and to perform in the Gala Celebration Concert in Winnipeg.
Peter's tape "Bits 'n Pieces" was broadcast on CJRT-FM and the English and French CBC, and he has been heard in solo performance on CBC-FM's "Arts National", "Music Around Us", "Music Alive: and "DiscDrive". Summer orchestral and chamber music performances have included the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Ottawa Valley Festival, the Boris Brott Music Festival in Hamilton and the Festival of the Sound in Parry Sound, Ontario.
Repeat Toronto engagements have included the Mozart Society, performances over the last 8 years with the contemporary music group Continuum, including a Western Canada tour and each year in the Toronto Symphony's "Made in Canada" festival, and with the ERGO and Encounters series in the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio, where Peter has also made two solo recital appearances. The Ontario Arts Council awarded Peter and award-winning electro-acoustic composer Randall Smith a Commissioning grant in 2000 for a new solo bass clarinet piece. Orchestral performances have included the ensembles of Ragtime, Phantom Of the Opera, ShowBoat, Miss Saigon and Mozart's Magic Fantasy, as well as with Orchestra London, and currently as a regular member of the Toronto Philharmonia, with whom he played the Glazounov Saxophone Concerto as soloist. Peter was featured in a showcase performance at the Ontario Arts Council's Contact conference, and now tours extensively throughout the province presenting solo and ensemble concerts under the title "Ebony and Ivory" with pianist/composer Andrew Gilpin.
In June 1999 he travelled to Munich, Germany with the ERGO ensemble to take part in the Ade-Vant Garde new music festival, an invitation renewed for June 2001.
Featured on CD releases with Continuum, the Canadian Brass, and composer John Gladwell, Peter has been guest soloist with orchestras in Canada and the United States, and adjudicated bands, choirs and orchestras from North America and Europe. He was the founding co-ordinator of the University Settlement School Chamber music program, and teaches clarinet and chamber music at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, and privately.