Vasil Tole

Last updated November 28, 2024

Vasil S. Tole (born 22 November 1963) is an Albanian composer, ethnomusicologist and administrator.^[1] A proponent of European classical music, his compositions include opera, chamber music, orchestral works and various pieces for small ensembles and solo instruments. He is the author of several books, mostly about the music of Albania.

Career

In 1987, he graduated from the Academy of Arts for composition. After working for three years as the artistic director at “Shtëpia e Kulturës” (“House of Culture”) in his hometown, Përmet, he was appointed as a professor of Albanian Music Folklore at the Faculty of Music. He was then hired as a professor of composition. While serving as a professor, he presented his PhD dissertation in the field of ethnomusicology, named: "“Structure and Semantics in the Instrumental Folk Music of Southern Albania”.

In 1994-95, he carried out the post-graduate studies in the field of Composition at Folkwang Hochschule, Essen-Germany, in the class of Prof. Wolfgang Hufschmidit and, in 1996, he carried out the postdoctoral studies in the Department of Musicology at the University of Athens, Greece. In 2000, he received the scientific title “Associate Professor”, and the one of “Professor” in 2004.

As an active representative of the new generation of the Albanian composers, Vasil S. Tole is known as one of the main protagonists of change, an initiator of new creative alternatives, one of the most decisive supporters of the concept for the restructuring of the Albanian folk music subject, serving to the identification of the identity and the novelties in contemporary music. Simultaneously, he dedicates himself to a broad activity related to studies and journalism, and participates in numerous music contests, conferences and roundtables in Albania, Kosovo, Greece, Italy, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Spain, England, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Canada, USA, China etc. He cooperates with artistic and research newspapers and magazines, with the Albanian Radio and Television; he is the author of tens of journalistic writings and monographies on music, as well as the winner of some important awards at national and international level, such as the winner of the first prize in composition “Dimitris Mitropoulos”, Athens 2001, with the opera “Eumenidet”.

After the 1990s, along with some colleagues, at the Academy of Arts, he becomes the initiator of the foundation and the management of some important music organisms, such as: the association “Muzikës së Re Shqiptare” (1993); the Albanian section of “The Rilm Abstract Literature of Music”, New York (1995); the Albanian section of CIOFF-it (1996); he has been the chairman of the Albanian Music Council since 1995, a member of the National Council of Music, Paris, a member of SEM-USA, Gema-Germany etc.

From 1997 to 1999, he was the Director of the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet. From 2001-2007, he was the Director of the Cultural Heritage Directorate at the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports. In 2005, he met all the obligations as an expert of ethnomusicology to prepare the file of the Albanian folk iso-polyphony, proclaimed by UNESCO as a “Masterpiece of Oral Heritage of Humanity”. In 2008, he was elected as a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Albania, in 2013, as a scientific secretary and in 2019 as the Deputy Chairperson of the Academy of Sciences of Albania.

Musical compositions

2022: “Koncert” për violinë dhe orkestër (dhe klavir)

2022: “Temë me variacione”, për fagot e piano (dhe orkestër harqesh)

2022: “Agoj 3”, “Temë me 12 variacione”, për piano solo

2022: “Broj, broj, broj”, për kor “a cappella”, SATB

2022: “Korba unë, qyqja unë”, për kor “a cappella”, SATB

2022: “Hajde, hajde”, për kor “a cappella”

2022: “A se”, për kor “a cappella”, SATB

2022: “Amane”, për kor “a cappella”, SATB

2022: “Elegji”, për kuartet kornosh in F

2022: “Amane” për kuartet fagotësh

2022: “Korba unë, qyqja unë” për kuartet fagotësh

2021: “PolifonISO”, për piano solo

2021: “Valle antike-danse antique” pёr orkestёr harqesh\string orchestra

2021: “Cim, cim, ca”, pёr soprano\tenor e piano. Poezia popullore

2021: “Kur mё shkon sokakut”, pёr soprano\tenor dhe piano. Poezia popullore

2020: “Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu, kryezot i Arbërit”, për solistё, kor SATB dhe orkestër simfonike, (Premiera në Kosovë)

- Uvertura me perkusion

- Introit: Requiem aeternam, pёr kor dhe orkestёr harqesh

- “Ëndrra e Shёn Gjergjit”, arie pёr solist bariton dhe orkestёr

- “Kyrie Eleison” pёr solist soprano, kor dhe orkestёr

- “Malli pёr atdhe”, arie pёr solist bariton dhe orkestёr

- “Sanctus” pёr kor dhe orkestёr

- “Lirinё nuk jua solla unё”, arie pёr solist tenor dhe orkestёr

- “Gloria” pёr solistё SATB, kor dhe orkestёr

- “O burrani mbi ta”, arie pёr solit tenor, kor dhe orkestёr

- “Agnus Dei” dhe “Vajtimi i Lekё Dukagjinit pёr Gjergj Kastriotin--Skёnderbeun”, pёr solist, kor dhe orkestёr

- Finale -“Skёnderbeu kryezot”, me orkestёr simfonike

2020: “Missa Solemnis”, për solistё, kor SATB dhe orkestër simfonike

2020: “Arbёreshe”, temё me variacione pёr piano

2020: “Ti meriton”, pёr kor SATB dhe për zёra burrash-baritonё, mbi tekstin e Liturgjisё Orthodhokse

2018: “Agoj 2”, album pianistik me 4 pjesȅ pȅr piano

- Vals i Trishtuar

- Valle

2017: “EP”, pёr orkestёr simfonike

2017: “Diligencia De Carmona”, për SATB, poezia në spanjisht Fernando Villalon

2017: “Janinulla”, për soprano\tenor dhe piano. Poezia popullore

2016: “Asaman”, për soprano/tenor dhe piano. Poezia popullore

2016: “Dhimbja e gëzimit”, me poezi të Florion Zykës. Festival i 55 - RTSH-së

2016: “Amen”, pёr piano

2016: “Bach-Pentatonic”, pёr piano

"Bach-Pentatonic (LLUPA & GEGPRIFTI)

2016: “Suita pastorale”, me tre kohë pёr flaut solo

2016: “Suita pastorale”, me tre kohë, pёrshtatur pёr klarinetё solo

2015: “Strumbullari”, pёr piano

2015: “Iso-polyphony multiverse”, pёr orkestёr simfonike

2015: “Alla shqiptarçe”, (Vlashi) pёr violinë solo

"Alla shqiptarçe" (Kadesha)

2014: “Himn jetës”, kёngё me poezi të Fatos Arapit. Festivali i 53 i RTSH-së

2012: “Tetë variacione mbi një temë popullore beratase”, pёr piano

2012: “Red and Black Flag”-prelude, pёr piano

2010: “AGOJ”, album pianistik për fëmijë

-Përmetare

-Elbasanase

-Korçare

-Vlonjate

-Dropullitë

-Shkodrane

-Kosovare

-Beratase

-Kolonjare

2004: OPERA “EUMENIDES”, per solist, kor, recitues, valltare dhe orkestër

-“Prologue-Uvertura” pёr orkestёr

-“Aria e Pithisё”, pёr soliste soprano dhe orkestёr

-Interlud, pёr orkestёr

-“Aria e Apollonit” pёr solist baritone dhe orkestёr

-“Dueti i Orestit me Apollonit”, duet me orkestёr

-“Aria e Klitemnestrёs”, pёr dy soliste: soprano, alto, kori i Eumenideve dhe orkestёr

-“Hakmarrja”, korifeja dhe kori i Eumenideve” dhe orchestra

-“Aria e Apollonit” pёr solit baritone dhe kori i priftёrinjve tё Delfit dhe orkestёr

-“Aria e Orestit”, pёr solit tenor dhe orkestёr

-“Ndjekja”, Korifeja dhe kori i Eumenideve dhe orkestёr

-“Dueti i Orestit dhe Korifesё” dhe orchestra

-“Vallja dhe Himni i Eumenideve”, pёr balet, korin e Eumenideve dhe orkestёr

-“Aria e Athinasё”, pёr soliste mezzo soprano dhe orkestёr

-“Athinaja, Korifeja dhe kori i Eumenideve”, dhe orkhestra

-“Athinaja, Oresti dhe kori i Eumenideve” dhe orkestra

-“Korifeja dhe Eumenidet” dhe orchestra

-“Finale, Aeropag”

2001: “Lundërtarët e vjetër”, për sop dhe piano. Poezia Arian Leka

2000: “Përjetësia” (Infiniteness), për bariton dhe piano. Poezia nga Lasgush Poradeci.

2000: “Ç’u mbush mali me dëborë” për korr vajzash\miks dhe piano. Poezia nga Lasgush Poradeci.

2000: “Suita” me tema popullore greke, I, II, pёr orkestёr simfonike

2000: “Dikotomi” për kuintet fryme. (Fl, Ob, Cl in b, Horn, Fagot)

1999: “Erë e borzilokut” për soprano, v.ni, v.c dhe piano. Poezia popullore

1999: “A Psalmodie bono”, për orkestër harqesh

1999: “Hoax”, v.cello solo

1999: Muzika e filmit “Lotët e Kosovës”, film dokumentar me regji të Kujtim Çashkut dhe skenar të Vath Koreshit.

1999: Muzika e filmit “Lojë botash”, film dokumentar me regji të Pluton Vasit dhe skenar të Fatos Baxhakut.

1998: “Këngëzë” për soprano\tenor dhe piano. Poezia popullore

1997: “Ep-event” për violinë, violë dhe v.cello

1997: “Shatra-Patra” për 3 daulle

1997: “R.I.P”-Rest in Peace, pёr piano

1996: “Trias” për flaut dhe orkestër simfonike

1996: “Genotip” për orkestër të madhe

1996: “Sarajevalium” për bariton dhe piano. Poezia Ervin Hatibi.

1995: “W” in memoriam, për Cl, Violinë, V.Cello, Piano dhe Drum I, II, III

1995: “DdA”, kuartet harqesh

1995: “Iso-Gjëma”, për 16 zëra vajzash

1994: “Avaz II” për 3 Viola, 5 Violina, 2 Fl, Cl, Drum I, II

1994: “Avaz” për kuartet fagotësh

1994: “88”, pёr piano

1994: “Bizantine”, për bas dhe piano

1993: “Age of Cage”, pёr piano

1993: “Pheromones” për Fl, Cl, V.cello dhe Piano

1993: “Epitaf dhe Britmë”, për kuartet harqesh, Fl, Cl, Fagot dhe Piano

1992: “Metamorfozë” për 24 instrumentistë harqesh

1992: “Portret simbolik dhe vdekja e tij”, pёr piano

1991: “Rend, rend or Marathonomak”

1991: “Pesë skica” për kuartet harqesh

1990: “Koncert për orkestër”

1990: Suitë me 6 kohë, pёr violinё dhe piano

1990: “Skerco”, pёr cl in b dhe piano

1989: “Kontrast”, variacion simfonik

1989: “Kosova”, për bas dhe piano. Poezia Ali Podrimja

1989: "As më ngre shaminë”, kёngё, kompleksi i djemve Përmet. Regjistruar nga RTSH.

1988: “Dallëndyshe e parë”, kёngё, me poezi të Fatos Arapit. Anketa muzikore e Radio-Tiranës.

1988: "Vajtim" për vcello e piano (përshtatur nga suita për violinë e piano)

1988: "Gazmore" për vcello e piano (përshtatur nga suita për violinë e piano)

1988: “Rondo” për orkestër harqesh

1988: “Rondo”, pёr piano

1988: Sonatë me 3 kohë, pёr violinë dhe piano

1987: “Poemë simfonike”

1987: “Këngët e Jutbinës”. Cikël romancash për bariton, tenor dhe piano. Poezitë popullore

1986: “Suitë” me 4 kohë, pёr orkestёr simfonike

-Veprat muzikore në CD:

2007: “Eumenides”, opera, publikuar në Angli.

1998: Tek C.D-“Sazet…”, vepra “Epitaf dhe britmë” për ansambël, nr. 22. Publikuar nga TEKNOTRADE. Tiranë 1998.

1997: Tek C.D-“Memus disco 2”, vepra “Trias” për flaut dhe orkestër, nr.4,CD/2. Publikuar nga Regione Siciliana, Itali.

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References

↑ Leotsakos, George (2016) [2001]. "Tole, Vasil S." . Grove Music Online . Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.52542. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.(subscription or UK public library membership required)

External links

Prof. Dr. Vasil S. Tole's website (in English and Albanian).

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[Grove-1] Leotsakos, George (2016) [2001]. "Tole, Vasil S." . Grove Music Online . Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.52542. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.(subscription or UK public library membership required)

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