"GARY LLOYD NOLAND (a.k.a. author DOLLY GRAY LANDON, visual artist LON GAYLORD DYLAN, and musicians ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, ORLAN DOY GLANDLY & DARNOLD OLLY YANG) was born in Seattle in 1957 and grew up in a broken home in a crowded house shared by ten or more people on a plot of land three blocks south of UC Berkeley known as People's Park, which has distinguished itself as a site of civil unrest since the late 1960s. As an adolescent, Noland lived for a time in Salzburg (Mozart's birthplace) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (home of Richard Strauss), where he absorbed a host of musical influences. Having studied with a long roster of acclaimed composers and musicians, he earned a Bachelor's degree in music from UC Berkeley in 1979, continued his studies at the Boston Conservatory, and transferred to Harvard University, where he added to his credits a Masters and a PhD in Music Composition in 1989. His teachers in composition and theory have included John Clement Adams (not to be confounded with composers John Coolidge Adams or John Luther Adams), Alan Curtis (harpsichordist, musicologist, conductor, and one of the musical ""stars"" in Werner Herzog's film on Gesualdo, ""Death for Five Voices""), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (Master of the Queen's Music from 2004-16), William Denny (student of Paul Dukas), Robert Dickow, Janice Giteck (student of Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen), Andrew Imbrie (student of Nadia Boulanger and Roger Sessions, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 1995), Earl Kim (student of Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch, and Roger Sessions), Leon Kirchner (student of Arnold Schoenberg and assistant to Ernest Bloch and Roger Sessions, Pulitzer Prize, 1967) David Lewin (dubbed ""the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation""), Donald Martino (student of Milton Babbitt, Roger Sessions, and Luigi Dallapiccola, Pulitzer Prize, 1974), Hugo Norden, Marta Ptaszynska (student of Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen), Chris Roz� (student of Charles Wuorinen, Ursula Mamlok, and Vincent Persichetti), Goodwin Sammel (student of pianist Claudio Arrau), John Swackhamer (student of Ernst Krenek and Roger Sessions), Ivan Tcherepnin (student of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, son of Alexander Tcherepnin), and Walter Winslow (brother of Portland composer Jeff Winslow). Noland has attended seminars by composers David Del Tredici (Pulitzer Prize, 1980), Beverly Grigsby (student of Ernst Krenek), Michael Finnissy (leading British composer and pianist), and Bernard Rands (Pulitzer Prize, 1984), and has had private consultations with George Rochberg (""Father of Neo-Romanticism,"" Pulitzer Prize finalist, 1986) and Joaquin Nin-Culmell (student of Paul Dukas and Manuel de Falla, brother of essayist and diarist Ana�s Nin). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https: //composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/"
...Gary Lloyd Noland ... has a boundless artistic spirit, and ... endless technical and musical ambition. His compositions ... challenge [listeners] to cast away conventions, traditions, customs and any formal limitations their musical mindsets may have locked them into ... Gary Lloyd Noland's endearing eccentricities only really seem far more subversive to those stuck in the conventions of the mainstream jungle. -TUNEDLOUD! Mr. Noland writes as a 'time traveler' in styles long abandoned by most composers as well as styles so new as to not have been imagined but by him. This he accomplishes naturally, convincingly, with originality and true passion. His command of all musical languages and his ability to traverse musical time is nothing less than remarkable...! -DONALD MARTINO, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Gary Noland is one of the great composers of the 21st century. -JACK RUMMEL, KGNU 88.5 FM, Boulder CO ...distinctive, inventive ... subversive ... You can hardly be indifferent to Noland's music and so I would urge you to try it. -ROGER BLACKBURN, MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL ...a glenngouldian personality... -JOSEPH FENNIMORE, American composer & pianist ...Haven't seen or heard anything like it from any one else... -GEORGE ROCHBERG, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist ...court jester to the classical establishment... -PAYTON MACDONALD, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE ...remarkable stuff... -MAX MORATH, American ragtime pianist & composer ...a loony composer from Oregon... -MAX SHEA, WMUA 91.1FM, Amherst, MA ...Gary Noland is one of those 21st Century composers seeking to forge a new aesthetic based on older models that do not traffic in serialism or minimalism -JACK SULLIVAN, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE ...Art music certainly needs Noland's Satie-esque humor. -BRETT CAMPBELL, EUGENE WEEKLY Gary Noland is a composer to end all composers... -DAVID MOORE, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE Beautiful ... imaginative brave new music... -DAVID DEL TREDICI, Pulitzer Prize winning composer ...the most virtuosic composer of fugue alive today ... the [Max] Reger of the 21st century ... Composer Gary Noland is possessed of a rich musical imagination, whose technique distills the achievements of Reger, Strauss and Schoenberg but also refracts their post-romantic/expressionist tendencies through the lens of twenty-first century post- modernism, American style. Moreover, he fits Stravinsky's definition of a great composer: one who doesn't merely steal, but knows what to steal. This Noland does with a wit and aplomb unique to the music of our time. -IRA BRAUS, pianist, musicologist, Professor of Music, THE HARTT SCHOOL ...the most prominent American composer (of modern classical music) of our times! -MARIUS HEREA, Romanian composer ...iconoclastic, stylistic potpourri standards of giddy humor, no holds barred soup to nuts and high spirits. -ROBERT LEVIN, pianist, musicologist, composer Your sense of humor is awesome. -LUKAS FOSS, German-born American composer, pianist & conductor ...Ihre Musik ist wunderschoen... -LADISLAV KUPKOVIC, Slovak composer & conductor ...I am bowled over by the expertise of your music... --ANDREW IMBRIE, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist