Five Things You Should Know About Conductor Carlo Ponti

New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Carlo Ponti is Music Director and Principal Conductor of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra whose debut album with the world-renowned Russian National Orchestra is out on PentaTone Classics now and garnering rave reviews. He is also the son of actress Sophia Loren and film producer Carlo Ponti. Here are a few other sides of Carlo you might not know.

�The Teacher: Carlo believes that exposure to music is essential for young people, especially classical music. In a recent NPR interview Carlo notes that classical music 'teaches them how to have community and how to be unified, things that young people really need.'

Listen to Ponti's interview on NPR's 'Weekend Edition' at: https://tinyurl.com/CarloPonti-NPR

�The Interpreter: Carlo prefers to be called an interpreter rather than a conductor and explains, 'My craft is to make a musical masterwork come to life by breathing into it a very precise interpretive concept.'

�The Green Thumb: Carlo loves to garden at his Encino, Calif. home and keeps a vast array of bamboo species and tropical plants.

�The Father: 'My greatest and most challenging goal is to achieve balance, both in my musical interpretations and in my life. I always strive to find enough time for my family even if my work sometimes demands otherwise.'

�The Actor: Carlo made a cameo in Vittorio De Sica's 'Sunflowers,' playing the son of his mother Sophia Loren when he was six months old.