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Upcoming Events
Tue, Sep. 12
Adam Bartczak Republic @King Center Concert Hall, 7:30pm Wed, Sep. 13 Adam Bartczak Republic @Dazzle, 7pm Fri & Sat, Sep. 16-17 PJS Trio @ The Crimson Room, 8pm-midnight Fri, Oct. 21 Gabriel Santiago & PJS @Nocturne, 11pm - 1am Wed, Oct. 26 Gabriel Santiago & PJS Quartet, with Rich Stein and Bijoux Barbosa @King Center Recital Hall, 7pm Thu, Oct. 27 Coexistence Trio CD Release!, with Rich Stein and Gabriel Santiago @Dazzle, 7pm Fri, Oct. 28 Gabriel Santiago, PJS, & Rich Stein @McKibben House Concert, Lakewood CO 7pm Sat, Oct 29 Coexistence Trio with Rich Stein and Gabriel Santiago @McKibben House Concert, Lakewood CO 7pm Tuesday nights Residency: November 1, 15, 22, 29 December 6, 13, 20, 27 The Democracy, with Don Byron @ Nocturne, 7pm-11:00 |
I am the head of the piano program at
the University of Colorado Denver. Prospective students, email me with any questions: peter.stoltzman@ucdenver.edu To apply to our program, go to: https://app.getacceptd.com/ucdenver Click here to visit the piano program website: www.cam.ucdenver.edu/meis/piano |
Owen Kortz and I served as the Academic Directors of the Summer Music Industry Program
for 14-18 year-olds again in 2015. Heads up: our name will be changing to reflect being part of the larger LYNX National Arts & Media Camps. Watch the video below from our second year, and please help spread the word to passionate young aspiring musicians. We doubled enrollment from 26 to 52 in 2015, and our goal is 65 in 2016! Click here to visit our website: www.cam.ucdenver.edu/meis/summer |
Stanford Jazz Workshop -- Every July!
Go to http://stanfordjazz.org/jazz-camp/ for more info.
Victor Lin and I continue to direct the Mentor Fellowship Program at SJW. I'm honored and excited to be working with such incredibly gifted young performers to help them grow into polished teachers as well. Congratulations to Jackson Fitzgerald, JJ Kirkpatrick, Javier Nero, Daniel Weidlein, and John Sturino, the 2014-15 SJW Mentor Fellows! |
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PJS Trio & Friends
Live at Casa Karen features Elias Haslanger and Suzi Stern Time After Time Beatrice Bye Bye Blackbird and more CLICK HERE to get my latest record on iTunes. |
Thomas Heflin - trumpet
Ron Westray - trombone Peter John Stoltzman - piano Elias Haslanger - tenor sax Adonis Rose - drums click here to listen to samples and buy tracks at CD Baby |
Past Events
Fall 2012
The winds of change blew again this summer, and I landed in Denver as the head of the Piano Program at the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD). It's a huge job...one that I am diving into fully. UCD has some top notch facilities, including recording studios and a piano lab equipped with iMacs, LogicPro, etc. I had an overhead camera system installed, and now we have the coolest piano lab in academia! The faculty is excellent, and everyone has graciously embraced me. Most importantly, Denver turns out to be a fantastic city to raise kids in. Off the charts. We're already in love with our neighborhood -- Park Hill -- and City Park, which has the Zoo, the Botanical Gardens, The Planetarium, etc., is one mile away. I have had a creative explosion the past few weeks and written 4 new tunes, all of which will be dedicated to my special Kickstarter backers. I will finish the CD, with a little help from a friend, hopefully... Celebrate!
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
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. |
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