Name: Nicholas Tolle: Works By Graduate Student Composers
Start: 2023-10-12T12:05:00
Location: Ann E. Pitzer Center

Nicholas Tolle

UC Davis Arts

Nicholas Tolle is one of America’s premiere cimbalom artists. In 2019 he won third prize in the Budapest Music Center International Cimbalom Competition where he was the only finalist from North America. In November 2022 he made his twelfth visit to the Lucerne Festival to perform the works of Unsuk Chin and György Ligeti. He has performed as soloist in Pierre Boulez’s 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. He has appeared as a soloist with Collage New Music and Orchestra 2001 performing Steve Mackey’s 5 Animated Shorts, and with numerous orchestras performing Kodály’s Háry János Suite. 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, and the New York Philharmonic. A leading interpreter of new cimbalom music, he frequently performs with the International Contemporary Ensemble and Ensemble Signal, and has also performed with the Talea Ensemble.