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Please join Mr. Topilow in
the
Celebrity Chat Room
Tuesday,
May 2nd, 2006
at 7pm Eastern
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 Carl
Topilow is renowned worldwide for his versatility, whether he is holding
a conductors baton or his trademark red clarinet. He is a multi-talented
virtuoso who equally at home in classical and popular music both as
conductor and instrumentalist. Carls pops performances blend light
classical, swing, jazz, Broadway, Dixieland, and Klezmer music, usually
finding occasion to include a number on his array of brightly colored
clarinets. His unique approach to pops programming includes extensive
audience involvement and true showmanship.
Following his long time dream of conducting his own pops orchestra, Carl
founded the Cleveland Pops. The orchestra, currently in its 11th season,
plays to large audiences in Severance Hall and in several other venues
throughout Northeast Ohio. The Cleveland Pops Orchestras diverse,
innovative and electrifying programs have been critically acclaimed. The
orchestras first CD, entitled Music to Grow On, is an exciting
collection of music for children and adults of all ages. Its second, a
CD celebrating the orchestras 10th anniversary, is an exciting
compilation of music taken from live performances.
Carl is also Conductor and Director of the Orchestral Program at the
Cleveland Institute of Music. Currently in his 25th year as conductor of
the CIM Orchestras, he is also head of the Masters program in orchestral
conducting. Graduates of this program can be found as maestros with
several leading orchestras.
Carl recently celebrated his 28th anniversary as Music Director and
Conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra, a summer music festival
based in beautiful Breckenridge, Colorado. He has assisted in the
training of talented young musicians and conductors for positions in
symphonic orchestras in the United States and abroad. With the NRO, he
has conducted for Itzak Perlman, Nathaniel Rosen, Yefim Bronfman, Lorin
Hollander and “Doc” Severinson, and has led the orchestra in concerts at
the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, and at the Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea.
Carl has also served as Principal Pops Conductor for the Southwest
Florida Symphony Orchestra in Ft. Myers, Florida, as well as Principal
Pops conductor for the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.
As a guest conductor, Carl has appeared around the world with orchestras
in China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Spain,
Switzerland and Venezuela, as well as in 29 states.
In addition to his busy conducting schedule, Carl avidly pursues his
passion for performing as clarinetist. He often performs with his
brother Arthur, a pianist, and the duo can be heard on two CDs, Come in
from the Cold and A View from the Top.
Carl is a member of a select group of distinguished performers known as
Yamaha Concert Performing Artists.
Carl was educated at the Manhattan School of Music, and has held
conducting fellowships with the National Orchestral Association (under
Leon Barzin) and the Aspen Music Festival (under Jorge Mester).
Carl began his professional career as Exxon Arts Endowment Conductor of
the Denver Symphony Orchestra. |
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