Peter Stoll is a musician in Toronto, Canada, playing all sizes of the clarinet family and saxophone, for symphonic and opera orchestras, new music ensembles, and in freelance chamber concerts as well as solo recitals. He teaches privately, and at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, where, in addition to clarinet lessons, Peter coaches chamber music, teaches a woodwind performance class, and runs a course in the Business of Music.
Another side of his career is frequent music festival adjudication, and examining for The Royal Conservatory of Music. Peter has authored a number of recent articles for the International Clarinet Association journal and other publications, and was the chief compiler of the 2014 clarinet examination syllabus for the Conservatory; these are all available for reading and download here on the Publications page. This page also hosts a link to a published arrangement, and in time may expand to include some of his other arrangements, and cadenzas.
Please enjoy looking through this website, and feel free to email any comments or questions from the Contact page!
News
- Peter had a great summer of performances, teaching and adjudicating, including at the BC Provincials and the National Music Festival in New Brunswick. It was great that the TaiwanFest orchestral concert at Harbourfront returned in late August, conducted as always by Ken Hsieh from Vancouver.
- He is looking forward to a busy year at the University of Toronto, with a very large clarinet studio plus multiple classes. He has arranged for French superstar clarinetist Nicolas Baldeyrou to visit the campus for a week in March and present master classes and a public concert.
- Peter will again lead two woodwind audition workshops for hopeful high school students at UofT in November and January. These will be free of charge to the students, and allow them to practice playing for feedback.
- There will be a lot of freelance performances, including a national tour with the Persian Canadian Golha Orchestra in November, and a return to the Festival of the Sound that same month.
- Peter will be organizing and playing in a recording session for Toronto composer Ulrich Menzefricke's new wind quintet at Revolution Sound in early September.
- It was great to hear from friend and composer Frank Horvat about this overdubbed solo clarinet piece from a few years ago, that Peter premiered and recorded: “I'm thrilled to share that the short film inspired by my composition, What The Walls Feel As They Stare At Rob Ford Sitting In His Office, has been selected as one of the top 50 Films of the past 50 years by the Ottawa International Animation Festival!”
- Congratulations to Peter's high school students Jason Su and Max Wong, both of whom received multiple offers of admission to university music programs following auditions in February!
- Congratulations to Peter's UofT clarinet student Nicholas Pantelica, who successfully auditioned to transfer into the Performance program for his second year!
- Congratulations to Peter's private clarinet student Paul M., who achieved First Class Honours on his Level 4 RCM exam in June!
