Carl St. Clair
Carl Ray St. Clair (born June 5, 1952 in Hochheim , DeWitt County (Texas) ) is an American conductor and orchestra leader .
Life
St. Clair studied opera and orchestral conducting with Walter Ducloux at the University of Texas at Austin . He later studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with Gustav Meier . His further career path was accompanied by Leonard Bernstein in Tanglewood in Massachusetts , Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur .
From 1985 to 1992 St. Clair was musical director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra , and from 1986 to 1991 director of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca , New York State . In early 1986 he was assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra .
St. Clair conducted the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Fullerton, California for the first time in January 1990 and was then appointed musical director of the orchestra. During his time there, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra performed the contemporary works An American Requiem by Richard Danielpour , Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio by Elliot Goldenthal with the cellist Yo-Yo Ma , the compositions Radiant Voices and Postcard by the composer in residence Frank Ticheli and the two piano concertos by Lukas Foss as world premieres.
From 1998 to 2004 St. Clair was a permanent guest conductor with the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart . There he recorded all of the symphonies by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos . During this time and the years that followed, he returned to the Pacific for various world premieres of contemporary music. These were z. B. Ballad, Dance and Fantasy by Chen Yi (premiere: March 10, 2004, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Santa Ana , California ), the song cycle Canciones de Lorca by William Bolcom with the tenor Plácido Domingo (premiere: September 15, 2006, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Orange County Performing Arts Center , Costa Mesa , California) and the chorale work The Passion of Ramakrishna by US composer Philip Glass (premiered September 16, 2006, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California ).
In Weimar , St. Clair was general music director at the German National Theater and the Staatskapelle Weimar from 2005 to 2008 before he went to the Komische Oper in Berlin in 2008 . As general music director, he directed the world premiere of Hamlet by Christian Jost with Stella Doufexis in the title role, as well as several new productions, e.g. B. La traviata with Hans Neuenfels as director. He prematurely ended his contract in Berlin in 2010.
Since 2011 St. Clair has been Music Director of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra again. In Germany he has led various performances in 2010, for example with the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig and in January 2011 was a guest conductor with the Federal Youth Orchestra on its Germany tour.
Academic activity
St. Clair worked at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and today (2012) teaches conducting at the University of Southern California at the USC Thornton School of Music .
Honors
- 1990: Seaver / National Endowment for the Arts
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | St. Clair, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | St. Clair, Carl Ray |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th June 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hochheim, Texas , USA |