Nolan Gasser holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Stanford University, where he has served as an Adjunct Professor, teaching courses on Medieval and Renaissance music history to undergraduate music majors. He continues to lecture and write on musicological topics periodically, including penning an article on Music Appreciation in the latest edition of San Francisco Medicine Magazine (download his article, "Living With Music: One Musician's Perspective"), which has since been reprinted in Arts and Education in the News, published by the Dana Foundation. Although Nolan’s specialty as a musicologist is Early Music (his dissertation: “Marian Veneration and Sacred Polyphony in Renaissance Milan, 1470-1520”), he is fluid in all periods of music history, with considerable knowledge of Modern and Contemporary music, as well as Jazz and Rock music – on which he has taught several courses.

Nolan is the Chief Musicologist for Pandora Media, Inc. (www.pandora.com), and the principal architect of the Music Genome Project that is the backbone of the wildly successful Pandora Internet Radio service. Most recently, Nolan designed the latest and final Music Genome, the Classical Genome, whereby Pandora Classical was launched in November 2007, to rave reviews (see News for more info on this).  This completes his work in designing all six Genomes at Pandora (Pop/Rock, Jazz, Hip Hop, Electronica, World, Classical). Pandora is now the leading Internet radio provider, with over 13 million registered users, and among the most popular applications now offered on Apple's IPhone.