Hartt Composers' Seminar Welcomes Cimbalom Artist Nicholas Tolle

Hartt Composition welcomes cimbalom artist Nicholas Tolle to Composers' Seminar on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 5 p.m. ET (Bliss, Fuller Music Center) for the first of two cimbalom lecture / demonstrations this season. Nicholas Tolle will return in spring 2022 for a reading / workshop session on new works for cimbalom written by Hartt Composition student composers.

Nicholas Tolle is one of America's premiere cimbalom artists. In 2019 he won 3rd prize in the Budapest Music Center International Cimbalom Competition. He has performed as soloist in Pierre Boulez’ Repons with the composer conducting at the Lucerne Festival in 2009, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal with Péter Eötvös in 2012, and with Steven Schick at UC San Diego in 2017. Based in Boston, MA, he plays regularly with such groups as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Emmanuel Music, and Sound Icon, and with his own group, the Ludovico Ensemble. He has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, New York Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Ensemble Signal. He is featured performing Boulez’s Repons in the EuroArts documentary Inheriting the Future of Music: Pierre Boulez and the Lucerne Festival Academy, and in Kurtág's music for cimbalom and voice on soprano Susan Narucki's 2019 album The Edge of Silence, which was nominated for a 2020 Grammy award. His recording of Kurtág’s Seven Songs from The Edge of Silence was named one of the best classical tracks of 2019 by the New York Times. 

For more about the artist, see: https://www.nicholastolle.com

All members of the University of Hartford and Hartt School communities are welcome. 

The session will take place in-person, free of charge, in:

Bliss Music Room

Fuller Music Center

University of Hartford

Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 5pmET