Carl St. Clair
Carl Ray St. Clair ( born June 5, 1952 in Hochheim, Texas, DeWitt County ( Texas), United States of America ) is an American conductor and orchestra conductor.
Life
St. Clair graduated from the University of Texas at Austin operas and orchestral conducting with Walter Ducloux. Later he studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with Gustav Meier. His further career was accompanied by Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur.
In the years 1985 to 1992 St. Clair was Music Director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, in addition also in the years 1986 to 1991 was head of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca, New York. In early 1986 he was assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
St. Clair conducted in January 1990, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra for the first time and was then appointed Music Director of the orchestra. In his time there, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra led among other things, the contemporary art An American Requiem by Richard Danielpour, Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio by Elliot Goldenthal with cellist Yo- Yo Ma, the compositions Radiant Voices and Postcard of the Composer in Residence Frank Ticheli, and the two piano concertos of Lukas Foss premieres on.
From 1998 to 2004 St. Clair was a regular guest conductor of the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. There he played a complete symphonies of the Brazilian Komponister Heitor Villa-Lobos. In this time and the years after, he returned for various premieres of contemporary music at the Pacific Ocean. These were, for example, Ballad, Dance and Fantasy by Chen Yi (UA: March 10, 2004, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Santa Ana, California), the song cycle Canciones de Lorca by William Bolcom with tenor Placido Domingo ( UA 15 September 2006, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, CA ) and the choral work, The Passion of Ramakrishna of the American composer Philip Glass (UA: September 16, 2006, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California).
In Weimar, St. Clair was in the years 2005-2008 General Music Director at the German National Theater and Staatskapelle Weimar before he went to the Komische Oper in Berlin in 2008. As musical director, he conducted the first performance of Hamlet by Christian Jost with Stella Doufexis in the title role, as well as several new productions such as La Traviata with Hans New rock as a director. His contract in Berlin in 2010, he finished ahead of schedule.
Since 2011, St. Clair has made Music Director of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. In Germany, he headed now various versions such as 2010 with the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig and was in January 2011 with guest appearances with the National Youth Orchestra during its tour of Germany.
Academic Record
St. Clair worked at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and now teaches (2012 ) at the University of Southern California at the USC Thornton School of Music, the field of conducting.