Recent News:

~Spencer Topel Wins The American Modern Ensemble 2009 Composer Competition 01/29/09

~Three Preludes is selected for the Denison University "Tutti" New Music Fesival 01/25/09

Quotes

“A fiercely modern electronic piece.  It was a surprising choice (and not universally appreciated) but clearly set the tone for the ceremony: this wasn’t going to be the same old pomp and circumstance." -Jim Roberts, CAM Cover Story

“Topel gradually and carefully merged the live processing with the quartet; it was one of the most skillful and beautifully integrated electronic quartets I have ever heard.”   -Mari Kimura, Juilliard Journal

 
  Spencer Topel
 
Welcome
Spencer Topel is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University. Mr. Topel has had performances by the Oregon Symphony, Juilliard Symphony, Onyx Ensemble, the Contempartensemble of Firenze, and by soloists Inbal Segev, Sumire Kudo, Rachel and Jason Calloway, Christopher Guzman, and Steve Beck, and has received awards from BMI, ASCAP, the NFAA, a Diploma of Merit from Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Juilliard’s Palmer Dixon Prize (2004), Richard Rodgers Fellowship (2002), and a Pia Gilbert Fellowship (2003).