Nicholas Tolle- Cimbalom/percussion

Listed under New Music, Percussion.
(Show all categories)

Visit my official website »

Described by the New York Times as “virtuosic” and by the Albany Times-Union as “amazingly skilled,” percussionist/cimbalomist Nicholas Tolle recently performed the solo cimbalom part in Pierre Boulez’ Repons in Lucerne, Switzerland with the composer conducting. In February, 2010, he performed Steve Mackey‘s cimbalom concerto “5 Animated Shorts” with Collage New Music. He has also performed the complete cimbalom chamber music of Gyorgy Kurtag. As a percussionist, he has performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Nederlands Radio Kamer Philharmonie, the Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Lyric Opera, Collage New Music, Cantata Singers, and is a core member of the Callithumpian Consort. Nicholas is the founder and director of the Ludovico Ensemble, a mixed chamber ensemble in residence at the Boston Conservatory that dually promotes rarely heard works of the European avant-garde as well as works by Boston-area composers. He is also a founding member of Ensemble XII. He has attended the Tanglewood Music Center, the Lucerne Festival Academy, the Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop, and the Aspen Music Festival. Nicholas has been a guest teacher at the Hochschule fur Musik in Detmold, Germany and the Arnhem (NL) Conservatorium. He attended the Boston, Amsterdam, and New England Conservatories.