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The Thornton Chamber Orchestra, guest-conducted by Orange County's Pacific Symphony music conductor Carl St.Clair, is joined by clarinetist Agnes Marchione in a program of works by Hindemith, Mozart and Haydn.
If childhood dreams were realized, the world would be filled with cowboys, ballerinas, pro wrestlers and princesses.
And for one young man, the perfect universe might have included the first maestro-cum-quarterback.
A product of the Texas public school system, Carl St.Clair excelled in athletics, especially football. Yet he eventually shunned sports to focus on his other passion in life: music.
St.Clair has been the music director of Orange County’s Pacific Symphony Orchestra for more than a decade. Under his leadership, the orchestra has gained national prominence through recording projects, commissions of new works, world premieres, live broadcasts and innovative programs such as Classical Connections, an introduction to the orchestra that utilizes the conductor’s considerable skill in communicating with audiences.
Dividing his time between California and Europe, St.Clair is also the principal guest conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra in Germany, where he is leading the orchestra in an ambitious three-year recording project of the complete Villa-Lobos symphonies.
A Visiting Artist and mentor to students at the USC Thornton School of Music, St.Clair has served as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (where he served as assistant conductor from 1986-1990), the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony.
“St.Clair sustains remarkable tension,” a New York Times reviewer once wrote, “while savoring the subtlest nuances of color and inflection.”
In 1990, he received the NEA/Seaver Conductors Award, the most prestigious prize of its kind in the United States.
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