2026 Adjudicators

Known for his virtuoso energy on stage as well as an easy and entertaining way of speaking with the audience, Peter Stoll teaches clarinet, chamber music, performance & education studies, and the Business of Music at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music as Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, and is a frequent performer with orchestral and chamber ensembles in southern Ontario. 

Also, a very popular adjudicator up to the national level, he has worked across Canada and in the United States. Peter is particularly known for his enthusiastic, positive comments and detailed suggestions to young musicians. Over the past 35 years Peter has been invited to adjudicate at over 170 local festivals across Canada. 

Fluent in both official languages, he has heard countless bands, orchestras, and woodwind, brass and percussion solos and ensembles coast-to-coast. Beyond the local level, he has judged at the finals of 18 Provincial competitions, and has been asked four times to serve as the woodwind adjudicator for the national finals of the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals. 

Peter is also a member of the Royal Conservatory of Music's National College of Examiners, where he was the area Specialist for Winds for 12 years, and was the Chief Compiler of the 2014 edition of the clarinet examination syllabus.