Birth name Todd Alan Stoll Website [1] | Instruments Trumpet Name Todd Stoll | |
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Genres Mainstream jazz, hard bop, post bop, Bebop, Big Band, Swing, Blues | ||
Occupation(s) Trumpeter, Educator Associated acts Jazz at Lincoln Center | ||
Todd stoll on jazz music education the nafme interview
Todd Stoll is an American jazz trumpeter and Vice President of Education at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Contents
- Todd stoll on jazz music education the nafme interview
- Todd stoll discusses jazz solos part 1 of 2
- Biography
- Youth jazz bands
- References
Todd stoll discusses jazz solos part 1 of 2
Biography
Todd Stoll was raised in Springfield, Ohio, where he studied trumpet at the University of Cincinnati’s Conservatory of Music, and later came under the tutelage of Vaughn Wiester. Initially focusing on performing, Stoll went on the road performing after graduation. In the early 90's Stoll became a band director in the Columbus, Ohio area, where he would also found the Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra and run it for 20 years.
A longtime friend and colleague of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis's, Stoll joined Jazz at Lincoln Center's Education Department in 2011, becoming Vice President of Education. Under his tenure, the Education department expanded its community outreach through band performances in New York City as part of the Jazz for Young People on Tour program, and through education outreach by members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra while the ensemble is on tour Stoll also oversaw the creation and launch of the Jazz Academy, an online education site featuring a freely accessible video library of Jazz lessons taught by musicians including Eric Reed, Helen Sung, Gary Bartz, and Azar Lawrence.
Youth jazz bands
The Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra is a highly competitive jazz band geared primarily towards very talented high school musicians in the central Ohio area. In addition to the Youth Jazz Orchestra Stoll also created and oversaw the Columbus Youth Jazz Studio Ensemble as well as the Columbus Youth Jazz Workshop. The Studio Ensemble and the Workshop provided a pipeline of talent to the Orchestra by training young musicians newer to Jazz to improve with other students at their level. Through these three bands Stoll touched the lives of hundreds of youth in central Ohio. Stoll had a passion for jazz that drew in talented student musicians from everywhere, even ones that weren't initially interested in Jazz. Stoll's signature phrase in rehearsals was "Swing Goddammit!"