Cameron Carpenter

Cameron Carpenter ( born April 18, 1981 in Pennsylvania) is an American organist and composer.

At the age of eleven, he made ​​a complete performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's " Well-Tempered Clavier " talked about. The European debut followed two years later with thirteen years. Carpenter studied at the Juilliard School in New York ( master degree ) in Gerre Hancock, John Weaver and Paul Jacobs. He worked briefly as an artist-in -residence at the Middle Collegiate Church in New York and performs regularly in the major U.S. and European music centers. His album Revolutionary was nominated for a Grammy in 2009.

Cameron Carpenter summarizes the secular organ music, so he uses not only the classical organ repertoire, but also plays arrangements of piano and orchestral music. He arranged for example, the entire 5th Symphony by Gustav Mahler for the organ. His organ versions of Chopin etudes represent the boundaries of traditional playing style in question. For example, he plays the races in the " Revolutionary Etude " (Op. 10 No. 12) and "Etude on the black keys " (Op. 10 No. 5) in parallel with hands and feet. To help him there comes in his own words his classical dance training.

Carpenter lives in Berlin and performs regularly on the big Schuke organ in the Philharmonie in Berlin and for the Digital Concert Hall.

Sound and video documents

• Cameron Carpenter. Revolutionary 1 CD / DVD. Telarc: 2008.
• Cameron Live! 2 CD / DVD. Telarc: 2010.