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~Admiral Ackbar in 1991: Space, Part Two, THE RECKONING
"[ASIMOV AT STAR'S END] might just have the most complex program of any 12-minute piece ever written. The work’s episodic nature allows for a kaleidoscope of colors and textures. Wildly ambitious, it at least provided a storm of youthful energy."
~James L. Paulk, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Zoll captured the vigorous energy of Latino dance forms with throbbing rhythmic patterns played with fiery passion by the ensemble. At the heart of the piece, Zoll, who is a serious dancer, stretched the rhythm and harmony into an abstract, dream-like state, with the pulse still beating but the content in a different world—hazy and elevated, beyond foot stomping and hip shaking."
~Be'eri Moalem, San Francisco Classical Voice
"Bailes... (2013) is a lively and varied, five-movement dance suite, with each movement given an evocative bilingual title. ... the whole work is eminently danceable and would be fine for a modern dance ensemble. Each movement has sections highly evocative of entrances and exits, featured solos, and dramatic lighting shifts—perhaps in part because of Zoll's own background as a dance accompanist. His scoring made skilled use of the oboe, piano, violin, and cello that it employed."
~Basil Condisine, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
"... the overriding element is the interplay of rhythms, often dark and intensely visceral in their complex, driving undercurrent ..."
~Mark Gresham, ArtsATL
"Classical music fans, remember this name."
"Zoll's work ... embodied high-school frustration with its squawking oboe (Miri Kudo) and percussive pizzicato from the violin (Jae Young Cosmos Lee) and cello (Jan Müller-Szeraws), not to mention the frequent changes of meter, and Geoffrey Burleson’s reaching under the piano lid to strike the strings with mallets."
~Jeffrey Gantz, The Boston Globe
"Propulsive Latin dance rhythms laid down by piano and percussion were the most immediately appealing aspect of Zoll's five-movement piece. ... Most likely, however, it was Zoll's skillful and imaginative handling of the instruments for tone color, counter-point, and special effects that earned him
the top prize."
~David Wright, Boston Classical Review
"The 'zapateado pensativo' is especially striking, with the cello’s initial pulsings gradually accumulating oboe, violin and piano, all very much doing their own things."
~Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News
Recent Reviews & Performances
"It's a TRAP!"
2015
June 2 & 3 @ 1:00 pm - Montreal, CA
Transmission Ensemble
at the Schulich School of Music
Reading and recording 5 to 9
February 8 @ 3:00 pm - Boston, MA
Boston Musica Viva
at the Tsai Performance Center
Premiering Bliss and the Pale Blue Dot
2014
July 17 @ 12:15 - Montreal, QC
Suzu Enns, clarinet & Adrian Foster, organ
at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul
Performing Tough Air
May 29, 30 & 31 @ 8:00 & 7:30 pm - Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
at Atlanta Symphony Hall
Premiering Asimov at Star's End
February 21 @ 7:30 pm - Kenosha, WI
Fifth House Ensemble
at Carthage College
Performing bailes...
February 22 @ 7:00 pm - Chicago, IL
Fifth House Ensemble
at Grace United Methodist Church
Performing bailes...
February 23 @ 3:00 pm - Chicago, IL
Fifth House Ensemble
at Chicago Cultural Center
Performing bailes...
February 28 @ 6:00 pm - Chicago, IL
Fifth House Ensemble
at Stowe Elementary School
Performing bailes...
March 2 @ 8:30 pm - Chicago, IL
Fifth House Ensemble
at Constellation Chicago
Performing bailes...
March 20 @ 8:00 pm - Mill Valley, CA
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
at Throckmorten Theatre
Performing bailes...
March 23 @ 7:00 pm - San Francisco, CA
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
at SF Conservatory of Music
Performing bailes...
2013
November 16, 2013 - Boston, MA
Boston Musica Viva
at Longy School of Music
Performing bailes...
October 19, 2013 - Dallas, TX
Voices of Change
at Southern Methodist University
Performing bailes...
October 16, 2013 - Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Chamber Players
at New American Shakespeare Tavern
Performing bailes...
2016
August 13 - Montreal, CA
Cygnus Trio
Premiering AMALGAM
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May 27 @ 4:00 pm - Red Hook, New York
Caitlin Beare, clarinet
Premiering I REMEMBER SUMMER
April 7 @ 7:00 pm - Obersulm, Germany
Dimitri Ashkenazy and Anna Magdalena Kokits
Premiering I REMEMBER SUMMER