Teaching:

• 1994 - 2008 lecturer for Jazz at the Richard-Strauss-conservatoire

• 2004 - 2008 special teaching assignments at the college of music and theatre in Munich for composition and arrangement for Jazz and Jazz sax

• Since 2008 professor of composing/arrangement at the college of music Carl-Maria-von-Weber Dresden (Saxony)

• numerous national and international workshops among other things, the artistic director of the international saxophone workshop 1997 with Lee Konitz, James Moody, Generations Workshop Frauenfeld, Switzerland 1998 and 2000 with Joe Lovano, George Gruntz, Benny Golson,

• work on an experiment on integral didactis: “music as path” and “arrangement for Jazz and composition and perception” (probably pubilshed in 2007)

• “Band Coaching” and seminar for Big Band conductors as a part of the teachers’ inservice training course and for “Jugend jazzt” (“youth makes jazz”)

 Awards:

• 1987 scholarship for the cultural promoting award

• 1993 promoting award of the free state of Bavaria

Work for:

• Chamber music, Jazz ensembles, Big Band, choir, orchestra, theatre, musical, music performance

• specialist for unusual crossover-projects (see premiers)

• wrote countless Big Band arrangements (assignments for radio, TV, CD-producers etc.)

Concerts with:

• Lee Konitz, Kenny Wheeler, Sam Rivers, Mike Gibbs, Toots Thielemans, Ack van Rooijen, Stan Tracey,             Karl Berger, Joe Pass, Bill Holman, Benny Golson, Clark Terry, Gary Burton, Etta Cameron, Allan Skidmore, Composers Improvisation Ensemble, European Chamber Jazz Ensemble, David Friedman, Al Cohn, George Gruntz, Vinko Globokar and others

• conductor and composer of the E B U Big Band with musicians out of 14 European countries

•  artistic director of the teachers’ Big Band of Bavaria

•  “Winsbacher Knabenchor”, “Georgian Chamber Orchestra”

• arranger and soloits for “Jazz and The Philharmonics” with members of the Philharmonics of Berlin

• Udo Lindenberg, Peter Maffay, Bruno Jonas, Engelbert, Alexis Corner Band

Premiers:

• 1988: Musical “No Oscar for Casablanca”

• 1991: “Metamorphosis” for wind ensemble and 5 soloists / solo performers

• 1993: “Terra Candida”, 5 shortstories for brass ensemble and percussion (à discography)

• 1996: Music for Botho Strauß’s “Das Gleichgewicht” (=Balance) (for the Studio Theatre of Munich, à dicography)

• 1998: “About the undertaking a conversation that is not held from the balcony” for a small orchestra and extemporizing baritone saxophone

• 1999: Encounter suite for choir and Jazz quintett (Windsbacher Kanbenchor, à discography)

• 2000: 50 years of the Orff institute: working on “Der Mond” (“the moon”) for vocals and Jazz ensemble

• 2001: “Spiel mit das Lied vom…” (“Once upon a time in the…”) … with Bruno Jonas and the Georgian Chamber Orchestra

• 2002: hymn cycle with the “Windsbacher Knaberchor” and Thilo Wolf quintett

• 2004: Musical “04, keiner kommt an Gott vorbei” (“no one comes past God”), arranger for Enjott Schneider

• 2005: “On the Wings of Hope” for the saxophone quartett of Berlin

• 2005: “Zollsound 5 and Kurt Weinzierl play “den Mond” (The Moon)

Own Ensembles:

•  Rameau’s nephews with Alfred Mehnter (lyrics) (contemporary grotesque in language and music)

• MSF (à dicography)

• “The conference” with Leo Gmelch (àdiscography)

• Zoll meets the Masterfranks (àdicography)

• Thomas Zoller jazz quartett “Zoller plays Mulligan”

• Zollsound 2 feat. Bill Elgart (à discography)

• Zollsound 4 feat. Lee Konitz (à discography)

• „Sprechzeit“ ("time to speak")

• Zollsound Chamber Orchestra (à discography)

• MSF “The Restart of…”

• Zollsound 5 and Kurt Weinzierl play Carl Orff’s “Der Mond” (The Moon)

• Zollsound 5 “Songs Closer to Silence”

Education:

After his graduation he studied piano at the Richard-Strauss-conversatory in the years 1973-76 in Munich, teacher: Benedikt Koelen and 1976-80 school music (piano and violin) at the “Musikhochschuke” (“university of music”)in Munich with state examination, autodidactical study of saxophone since 1975, 1982-91 experience as player and arranger at concerts and recordings with Pat Boone, Dieter Reith ("Verstehen Sie Spaß"), arranger and composer for the  Al Porcino Big Band, Udo Lindenberg, Peter Maffay, Engelbert, Harald Rüschenbaum Jazz Orchestra a.v.o., workshop with Bill Holman.