Recent News  (scroll down for contact info, gig schedule, and youtube videos)


Huge thanks to everyone who made the Kickstarter campaign a success.  
Now that the semester is done, I will be kicking into gear with finishing production.  Hopefully, we can get this done before July!  

Listen while you browse.  Enjoy!  It's free to listen!  
If you want to take a track with you, click the buy button to download it directly from iTunes.  

Upcoming Events

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Henry Johnson
"WDCB Night"
The Jazz Showcase, Chicago
8pm, 10pm
Wed., May 9th
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Evan Cobb
Pete Miller's, Evanston IL
see website for times
Thu. May 17th-Sunday May 20th
 
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Peter Stoltzman and "New Genre"
with Mika and Richard Stoltzman, 
Lukas Vesely (bass)
Stanford Jazz Festival, CA
8pm
Fri. July 13th



Contact: peter @ peterjohnstoltzman.com

Stanford Jazz Workshop 2012 is open for registration!

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Go to http://stanfordjazz.org/jazz-camp/ for more info. 
I am the Faculty Director for the jazz camp, weeks 1 & 2 of SJW. 

Touring Brazil with the Gabriel Santiago Quintet 

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My first trip to Brazil!
Releasing our first DVD. 
Gabriel Santiago - guitars
Wayne Salzmann - drums
Patrice Blanchard - bass
Russell Haight - winds
Peter John Stoltzman - keys

www.gabrielsantiagoproject.com
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Latest release as a sideman on Armin Marmolejo's CD

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http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/arminmarmolejo

Check out this new release!
It's an honor to be on this record. 

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Thomas Heflin - trumpet
Ron Westray - trombone
Peter John Stoltzman - piano
Elias Haslanger - tenor sax
Adonis Rose - drums
David Sierra - drums
Eric Revis - bass
Neal Caine - bass

click here to listen to samples and buy tracks at CD Baby

Past Events

Moving to Chicago
I'm on the move -- in June I accepted a full-time teaching position at the University of Illinois at Chicago.   I'll be back in Austin to visit, record, and perform.  The faculty at UIC has been very warm and welcoming, and I look forward to working with the students, as well as being part of growing the jazz department.  

Celebrate!

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Nicholas Robert Stoltzman Gray was born Feb. 24th, 2011
New York, New York!  Carnegie's Zankel Hall on January 7th
with Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Richard Stoltzman, and Mika Yoshida
playing music from Mika's 2010 release, Mikarimba, and tunes by Eddie, Steve, and Olivier Messiaen!
click here to buy tickets
I am replacing Warren Berhardt on piano, who had a medical emergency.  Please join me in sending prayers for healing and an optimal recovery.

Fall Semester 2010: Full steam ahead

Nose to the grindstone towards the dissertation...
The pilot study is almost done.  Here's what I observed the great jazz piano teacher Jeff Hellmer doing whenever he is leading students to observably improve on their instrument:
1) Identify meaningful challenges
2) Model the skillful execution of those goals
3) Translate the challenges into manageable tasks
4) Guide the student towards increasingly abstract conceptions of the music
  Based on current research in expertise in music, an optimal state is achieved when abstract thinking initiates the skillful execution of meaningful musical expressions.  When practices are meaningful, manageable, and modeled beautifully, music students are likely to experience optimal development.  If practices are not manageable, students get frustrated.  If practices are not meaningful, students get bored.  With this in mind, my philosophy asks for teachers to be more than just masters of instruments and knowledge.  Teachers must also be masterful in their perception and assessment of students, in their ability to assign and sequence relevant practices at appropriate levels of complexity, and to construct lessons that emphasize relevant topics and repertoire for their students.

1st prize at the 2010 Kathleen T. and Philip B. Phillips, M.D. Jazz Piano Competition

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All 5 pianists were fantastic:  Emmet Cohen (Miami), Chris Pattishal (William Patterson), Roberto Verastagui (UNT),
and Jeremy Siskind (Columbia)
I am honored and grateful to win the competition this year.  I receive it humbly, knowing any one of us could have been the winner. 
I am grateful to the audience for forgiving my imperfections and receiving/perceiving my intentions. 
Thank you for the Audience Favorite award!! 
And a huge thank you to Jeff Hellmer, my professor at UT, and all my former teachers, namely Joanne Brackeen and Charlie Banacos. 
I dedicate everything to you, Charlie.  Rest in Peace and Love.