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CARL TOPILOW
Carl Topilow is renowned worldwide for his versatility, whether he is
holding a conductor’s 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. Carl’s 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 12th
season, plays to large audiences in Severance Hall and in several other
venues throughout Northeast Ohio. The Cleveland Pops Orchestra's
diverse, innovative and electrifying programs have been critically
acclaimed. The orchestra's first CD, entitled Music to Grow On,
is an exciting collection of music for children and adults of all ages.
Its second, Live at the Pops, celebrates the orchestra’s 10th
anniversary, and 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 27th 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 30th 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 more
than 80 orchestras, in 30 states in the USA, as well as orchestras in
Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Spain,
Switzerland and Venezuela.
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 three CDs,
Come in from the Cold, A View from the Top, and Music of America.
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.
Carl makes his home in Beachwood, Ohio, where he lives with his wife
Shirley, Director of Morgenstern Dance Studio and Executive Director of
the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, and his daughter Emily. Daughter Jenny, a
graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and Carnegie Mellon
University, is a member of the violin section of the Charlotte Symphony
Orchestra.
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CARL
TOPILOW HAS APPEARED AS GUEST CONDUCTOR WITH THESE ORCHESTRAS
Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra
* Akron Symphony Orchestra
Albuquerque Opera Theatre
Amarillo Symphony Orchestra
Anchorage Symphony Orchestra
* Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Austin Symphony Orchestra
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Belluno (Italy) Orchestra
Boca Raton Philharmonic Symphonia
Bochumer Sinfoniker (Germany)
Boise Philharmonic Orchestra
Boulder Philharmonic
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Calgary Philharmonic
Cedar Rapids (IA) Symphony Orchestra
Charleston (SC) Symphony Orchestra
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra
Cleveland Institute of Music Wind
Ensemble
Cleveland Institute of Music Youth
Orchestra
Cleveland Opera Theatre
Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland Philharmonic
Collegium Academicum (Geneva,
Switzerland)
Colorado All State Orchestra
Colorado Symphony Orchestra
Connecticut Orchestra
Denver Symphony Orchestra
Denver University Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Erie Philharmonic Orchestra
Eugene Symphony Orchestra
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra
Firelands Symphony Orchestra (OH)
Florida Symphony Orchestra
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra
Four Corners Opera
Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Indiana Chamber Orchestra (Fort Wayne)
Indiana University Orchestra
Janacek Philharmonic (Czech Republic)
Johnstown (PA) Symphony Orchestra
Long Beach Symphony Orchestra
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Louisville Orchestra
Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra (Venezuela)
Memphis Symphony Orchestra
Midland-Odessa Symphony
National Symphony of Mexico
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
New World Symphony Orchestra (Miami)
Northwest Chamber Orchestra (Seattle)
Oberlin College Opera Theatre
Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra and Chorus of St. Louis
Orchestra of the University (Mexico City)
Owensboro (KY) Philharmonic Orchestra
Pacific Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonic Society of St. Louis
Phoenix Symphony Orchestra
Penfield (NY) Symphony Orchestra
Reno Chamber Orchestra
Richmond (VA) Symphony Orchestra
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Academy of Music (London) Orchestra
Shanghai Ballet Orchestra
Shanghai Opera Orchestra
Shreveport Symphony Orchestra
South Bend Symphony Orchestra
Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra
Suburban Symphony (Cleveland)
Tacoma Symphony Orchestra
Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra
* Tulsa Symphony Orchestra
Tuscaloosa Symphony
Virginia Symphony
Winnipeg Symphony
Youngstown Symphony Orchestra
(*) Indicates future engagement
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