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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.
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