Recent News:

~Selected for the Minnesota Compsers Institute 2009 10/2/09

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

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

  

 
Profile

Spencer Topel's music has recently appeared on concert programs in major venues such as the Chiesa di Santa Caterina Treviso in Venice, Italy, Istanbul Technical University (MIAM), the 2008 Aspen Music Festival, Chigiana Festival in Siena, Italy in 2007, at Alice Tully and Weill Concert Halls in New York, and in Tokyo City Opera Hall. In May 2008, his music was featured on a concert tour of Turkey sponsored by the Turkish Cultural Center NY, which featured twelve musicians from around world. In 2009, his music appears on the calendars of the Minnesota Orchestra, the American Modern Ensemble, and the Holden Gallery.

Spencer Topel is also an active lecturer and researcher at Dartmouth College where he teaches composition in the Digital Musics Program. In 2007 Mr. Topel was a recipient of the Credit Suisse Sponsor Award at the Cornell Student Engineering Conference BOOM.