Carl St. Clair

Carl St. Clair launched his formal training at the University of Texas before concentrating on conducting at the University of Michigan with Gustav Meier and later at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein. He held music directorships with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra while also serving as assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His podium work has extended to the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Staatskapelle Weimar, Bundesjugendorchester, and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica. St. Clair has led pieces by Richard Danielpour, Elliot Goldenthal, Frank Ticheli, and Michael Daugherty, recording them respectively for Reference Recordings, Sony Classical, Koch International, and Naxos. Further releases have appeared on Harmonia Mundi, Zarathustra Music, Orange Mountain Music, CPO, and Acousence Classics, and he prepared video presentations of Wagner’s Der Ring der Nibelungen for ArtHaus Musik.