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Ton Beau String Quartet with Peter Stoll, clarinet
Friday May 22, 2015 at 8 pm
$20 / $10 Students
Program
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F
Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B Minor
George Gerswhin Three Preludes for Clarinet and String Quartet (arr. Stoll)
Ton Beau QuartetFounded in 2010, the Ton Beau Quartet has presented music throughout the University of Toronto community through performances at the Art Centre, Multi-Faith Centre, and the Faculty of Music’s own New Music Festival. Beyond the university, the Ton Beau Quartet has performed at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, the Merriam School of Music and as part of the Health Arts Society of Ontario’s ArtsWay series. They have worked with members of the Ebène, Miami, Orford, Prazak, St. Lawrence, and Ying String Quartets. During the 2011 summer season, they performed at Wilfrid Laurier University’s QuartetFest, the St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber Music Seminar at Stanford University and the Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series.
The quartet’s name is derived from Douglas Hofstadter’s book Le Ton beau de Marot (1997) which focuses on the concept of translation, which has many parallels within the act of musical interpretation. The title is a pun on Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin.
Known for his virtuoso energy on stage as well as an easy and entertaining way of speaking with the audience, Peter Stoll was a prizewinner in the International Clarinet Society Competition, and also Solo Clarinetist with the World Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales in Berlin and Vienna, which was broadcast on live television across Europe. Peter won First Prize in Chamber Music at the National Competitive Music Festival, for whose 50th Anniversary edition he was invited back as Woodwind Adjudicator and as soloist in the Gala Celebration Concert in Winnipeg. A graduate of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, where he studied with Avrahm Galper and Ronald Chandler, he received his Master’s of Music degree in Performance from Indiana University as a student of James Campbell.
Peter has been guest soloist with orchestras in Canada and the United States, and was invited to Saratov, Russia for solo performances with the Saratov Philharmonic’s “Volga Wind Ensemble” and to present masterclasses at the State Conservatory.
Featured on several CD releases, including once with the Canadian Brass and several for composer John Gladwell, Peter’s first solo recording “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”, “DiscDrive” and “The Signal”. 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. Summer festival performances have included the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Ottawa Valley Festival, the Niagara International Chamber Music Festival, and as a Mentor at the Boris Brott Music Festival’s National Academy Orchestra in Hamilton, as well as the Ottawa and Vancouver Chamber Music Festivals.
A frequent performer of new music, he twice travelled to Munich, Germany with the ERGO ensemble to take part in the AdeVant Garde festival. Other tours with ERGO have included New York City, Finland and Lithuania. As a core member of the Talisker Players, Peter has performed at the Vancouver, Ottawa and Elora summer festivals, and was recently featured on their first CD recording.
Orchestral performances are as Principal Clarinetist of the Toronto Philharmonia, as well as with many other local and regional orchestras including the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, the Hamilton Philharmonic and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, as well as with Opera York and Kerry Stratton’s Grand Salon Orchestra as Solo Clarinet and Saxophonist.
Peter teaches clarinet and chamber music privately and at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. He is also a member of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s National College of Examiners, and is much sought after as an adjudicator at music festivals across the country.
Recent highlights have included a duo recital with pre-eminent Canadian percussionist Beverley Johnston, solo and chamber performances for visits by world-renowned composers Kryzstof Penderecki and Chen Yi, concerto appearances with the Toronto Philharmonia and the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, as well as serving as Artist-In-Residence for the Silverthorn Symphonic Winds.
Peter’s website is www.peterstoll.ca
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