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 a recent 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.  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 27 million registered users, and among the most popular applications now offered on Apple's iPhone – with over 2.5 million apps downloaded. Indeed, the company is well on its way to completely re-defining radio – with its goal of “Pandora Everywhere”.

Nolan likewise holds the position as Artistic Director of the Classical Archives website (www.classicalarchives.com), a position he has held since 2002. As discussed in News, the Classical Archives recently re-launched with a new service and interface, offering streaming and downloads of the full classical catalogues of the Major and Independent classical labels along with an unmatched system of search and navigation, special features, and much more. The reaction so far has been incredible, and Classical Archives is on its way to becoming the primary source of classical music online (download the recent article in the Wall Street Journal).