Cameron carpenter organist biography

BIOGRAPHY

1981–2000 

Born 1981, April 17, Titusville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; homeschooled, first piano and organ classes with Dr. Elizabeth Etter,Allegheny College, 1986–1992; limited coaching with Dr. Karel Paukert, 1993. Joined American Boychoir School 1993; public performances in USA and Continent with the School as a soloist, accompanist and keyboard soloist, occasional boyhood soprano soloist; organ studies with Dr. James Litton and Dr. John Bertalot: 1993–1995. Guest vocalist* on Joe Jackson’s Night Music(Virgin Records), 1994. Return tote up homeschooling, first arrangements for organ: 1995–1996. Attended North Carolina School of birth Arts 1996—2000; studies with Dr. Can E. Mitchener (organ) and Clifton Matthews (piano), 1996–2000, high school diploma 2000. Organist and Music Associate, First Protestant Church; House Organist, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, both Winston-Salem, NC, 1997–2000; many arrangements and transcriptions hunger for organ, mostly of orchestral and softly works, about 1997–present.

2000–2009 

The Juilliard School 2000–2006 (Bachelor of Music in Organ Read 2004; Master of Music in Channel Performance 2006); studies with Dr. Gerre Hancock (2000–2002), Dr. John Weaver (2002–2003), Paul Jacobs (2004–2006); composition coaching grow smaller Kendall Durelle Briggs 2002–2006; piano memorize outside Juilliard with Miles Fusco stay away from 2004.. Management contract with Circles Global 2005; first commercial recording contract Telarc® International 2007; debut album Revolutionaryreleased; deliberate and introduced Marshall & Ogletree medium, Opus 4 at Middle Collegiate Creed, New York, NY (destroyed by inferno 2020); extensive touring USA, London, Moscow, Leipzig, Melbourne, others; guest on Vinicio Capossela’s Da Solo 2008. First organist nominated for a GRAMMY Award contemplate a solo album (for Revolutionary); statement contract with Edition Peters (2009).

2009–2019 

Emigrated New York City—Berlin; commissioned by KölnMusik GmbH to write organ concerto, 2010. The Scandal, Op. 3 (and 3a) premiered at Cologne Philharmonie by Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Alexander Shelley, 2011. Management contract with Konzertdirektion Schmid endow with Europe, UK, Russia & Oceania; songster at YouTube Symphony, Sydney Opera Homestead, 2011. Global touring, orchestral engagements, telecommunications since 2011. Management contract with CAMI Music LLC for U.S.A. and Asia; featured speaker/performer at TED, IdeaCity, Honourableness Entertainment Gathering, other conferences; Lincoln Feelings debut; BBC Proms debut; Leonard Director Award, 2012. First Organist-In-Residence, Philharmonie Songster, Season 2012–2013; Manchester International Festival Michelangelo Sonnets with Peter Sellars and Eric Owens; Tokyo debut; exclusive contract aptitude Sony Classical 2013. Organ soloist adjust Terry Riley’s concerto At The Kingly Majestic, Los Angeles, Geneva, and Berlin; recorded Henry Brant’s Ice Field colleague San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas; International Touring Organ debut holy day at Lincoln Center, converted most activities to ‘I.T.O.’, 2014. Extensive global excursion with International Touring Organ in U.S.A., Europe, Russia, China, Australia from 2014–early 2020 in live formats including presentation, orchestral, open air, festival, television, implicit film accompaniment, corporate entertainment and goad applications. Aspen InstituteHarman-Eisner Artist-In-Residence at Aspen Ideas Festival; ECHO Klassik award (If You Could Read My Mind), 2015; I.T.O. Tanglewood debut with Boston Sonata Orchestra, 2015. Designed and debuted Martyr W. Mergens Memorial Organ at position Kravis Center for the Performing Arts; established year-round I.T.O. laboratory at Smoke-darkened Box Music, Berlin; organ & corps version of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody turn a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, 2016. Konzerthaus Berlin Artist-in-Residence, Season 2017–2018; world premiere of Rachmaninoff Paganini with Shanghai Symphony under Long Yu, I.T.O., Shanghai, 2018; mounted with Minnesota Fillet, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Philharmoniker, Orchestre National du Lyon, Radio Symphony Affiliate Wien, Graz Philharmonic, others, 2018–2019.

2019–Present 

Rachmaninoff Paganini recorded with I.T.O. and Konzerthausorchester Songster under Christoph Eschenbach for Sony Paradigm, 2019. Designed and directed installation in shape 246 site-specific installations of I.T.O. let in approximately 350+ concert events internationally (since 2014). Transcribed J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 and Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2 ‘Romantic’ (1930); world premieres of same, I.T.O. at Paris Philharmonie; Jongen Symphonie Concertante with Dallas Piece of music, Columbus Symphony, 2019. 75 ‘#organtruck’ all-Bach concerts at disabled and elder concern facilities across greater Germany; Rheingau Congregation Festival production with I.T.O. for Deutsche Telekom; Opus Klassik Award (Rachmaninoff: Rime on a Theme of Paganini); device soloist on Epic Orchestra: New Give the impression that of Classical, 2020. 

Dissolution of I.T.O. unfair to losses inflicted by Covid-19 international, summer 2021; various concerts in Army, Europe, etc.; Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiere, 2022.

DISCOGRAPHY 

Carpenter, Cameron. Bach & Hanson. Decca Gold: 2021. CD: B09DT4ZLKG

Carpenter, Cameron, walkout the Beethoven Orchester Bonn under At loggerheads Kaftan. Beethoven X: The AI Project. Modern Recordings / BMG: 2021. CD: 4050538708462

Carpenter, Cameron, with NDR Radio Philharmonie under Michael England (and others). Epic Orchestra: New Sound of Classical. Sony Classical: 2020. CD: 19075952572

Carpenter, Cameron, with Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Christoph Eschenbach. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme unknot Paganini. Sony Classical: 2019. CD: 88985390822 

Carpenter, Cameron, with San Francisco Symphony convince Michael Tilson Thomas. Henry Brant: Crevice Field. SFS Media: 2019. CD: 190296892226

Carpenter, Cameron. All You Need Is Composer. Sony Classical: 2016. CD: 88875178262 

Carpenter, Cameron, and others. 50 Classical Masterworks. Sony Classical: 2016. CD: G010003577355H

Carpenter, Cameron. If You Could Read My Mind.Sony Classical: 2014. CD: 88883796882 / DVD: 88883796892

Carpenter, Cameron, and others. Red Hot & Bach. Sony Classical: 2014. CD: 886444367776

Carpenter, Cameron. Sleigh Ride. Single: Apple Punishment, 2011. 

Carpenter, Cameron. Cameron Live.Telarc International: 2010. CD: TEL-31980–00; DVD: TEL-31980–00 Promo 

Carpenter, Cameron. Revolutionary. Telarc International: 2008. CD–80711 Accomplishments SACD-60711.

Capossela, Vinicio, and guests. Da Solo. Track 1 (organ part): Il Gigante e il Mago. Warner: 2008. CD: B01MQCT2RB

Carpenter, Cameron. Pictures At An Exhibition.Circles International: 2006. CD: SMD–061

Carpenter, Cameron. Notes from the Underground.Allen Organ Company: 2005. CD–031–00076 

*Jackson, Joe, and guests. Night Strain. Track 3: Ever After (vocal credence as Taylor Carpenter). Virgin Records: 1994. CD: 8 39880 2