1. Nolan Ira Gasser was born on November 10,1964 and is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist.
12 Facts About Nolan Gasser
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Nolan Gasser was the chief musicologist for Pandora Media, Inc and the architect of the Music Genome Project, the proprietary musical analysis system that underlies the popular Internet radio service.
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Nolan Gasser is the Artistic Director of Classical Archives, a leading online classical musical service.
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Nolan Gasser began playing piano at age 4, and was composing by age 8.
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In 1988, Nolan Gasser received a Bachelor's degree in music from California State University, Northridge, where he studied composition with Aurelio de la Vega, and piano with Charles Fierro.
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Nolan Gasser then sojourned to Paris for two years, where he studied privately with Betsy Jolas and at Fontainebleau with Jolas, Gilbert Amy, and Tristan Murail.
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In 1991, Nolan Gasser earned a Masters in composition at New York University in New York, where he studied with Todd Brief and Menachem Zur.
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Nolan Gasser's dissertation was "The Marian Motet Cycles of the Gaffurius Codices: A Musical and Liturgico-Devotional Study".
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Nolan Gasser became the Chief Musicologist at Pandora, and is the architect of all five Music Genomes ; he helped design the means of analysis and training by which the company continues to this day, as the hugely successful Pandora Radio service.
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Nolan Gasser is an occasional adjunct professor in Medieval-Renaissance music history at Stanford University.
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Nolan Gasser periodically gives lectures, such as at the Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival in 2010, at the University of California, Santa Barbara in February 2011, and at a joint meeting of the National Endowment for the Arts and the United States Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC, regarding arts education.
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Nolan Gasser wrote the opening movement of the choral song cycle Tyler's Suite, about the tragic story of Tyler Clementi, which was premiered in March 2014 by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and which will be performed subsequently in Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York.