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American conductor
Carl St. Clair attended the University of Texas, before pursuing conducting at the University of Michigan, where he studied with Gustav Meier, and at Tanglewood, where he worked with
Leonard Bernstein.
St. Clair was the music director of the
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the
Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and served as assistant conductor for the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has also conducted the
Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, the
Staatskapelle Weimar, the Bundesjugendorchester, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica.
St. Clair has conducted works by composers
Richard Danielpour,
Elliot Goldenthal,
Frank Ticheli, and
Michael Daugherty, and recorded them for Reference Recordings, Sony Classical, Koch International, and Naxos, respectively. He has also released recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Zarathustra Music, Orange Mountain Music, CPO, and Acousence Classics, and made videos of
Wagner's Der Ring der Nibelungen for ArtHaus Musik.