Vasil Tole

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”.

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”.

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”.

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.

Poezia Ali Podrimja 1989: "As më ngre shaminë”, kёngё, kompleksi i djemve Përmet.

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