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About Arthur Topilow:
By day, Arthur Topilow, MD is the Director of Hematology/Medical Oncology at the Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC) in Neptune, New Jersey, and is an ardent pianist at night. He began studying the piano with Nina Dobkin in his hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey, and was soon playing professionally in his high school years. Arthur studied jazz piano with Lennie Tristano and Morris Nanton. During his college and medical school years he honed his skills while playing in Catskill Mountain hotel bands. In his internship year, he performed the Rhapsody in Blue with the Manhattan Doctors’ Orchestra. His chamber music performances have included works by Brahms, Bach, Cesar Franck, Mendelsohn, and Claude Bolling. In 1985, he performed the Schumann piano concerto with the Garden State Orchestra. He participated in the Count Basie centennial jazz concerts in Red Bank in 2004 and in the Jazz in the Park series in Red Bank in 2004 and 2005. For the last ten years, his own jazz group continues to play at the Ruth Hyman Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Deal, New Jersey, featuring such notables as Ken Peplowski, Ed Polcer, Randy Sanke, and James Chirillo.
Arthur has appeared on many occasions with his clarinetist/conductor brother, Carl, at events in New Jersey, Ohio, and Colorado, including several times with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra (CPO) under the baton of brother Carl Topilow. His first CD, “Come In From The Cold,” was recorded with his brother in December 2001 in Cleveland. A second CD, “A View From The Top,” was recorded with Carl and a group of musicians from the CPO. Arthur and Carl’s third CD, recorded in 2006, is called “Music of America.” In 2004, the brothers performed in Como and Florence, Italy while on a concert tour. Arthur is presently working on a fourth CD that will feature his piano playing. He is often seen in local Jersey Shore clubs and events with bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and guitarist Vinnie Correo.
Dr. Topilow is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. A Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, he is a member of the American Society of Hematology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In private practice with Atlantic Hematology Oncology, he also directs a clinical research section at JSUMC and a summer research program for college students. He has written and co-authored more than thirty medical articles and abstracts. In addition to racing his sailboat and cruising the East Coast of North America, he has published numerous articles on sailing, radar navigation, frog hunting, and jungle exploration..
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