Cameron Carpenter

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Cameron Carpenter (2011)

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

Life

Taylor Cameron Carpenter was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, the eldest of two sons to Gregory and Lynn Carpenter. Carpenter later renounced his first name Taylor for marketing reasons and has been called Cameron Carpenter ever since. Carpenter was initially homeschooled by his mother until he entered the American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Jersey, at age eleven. Carpenter later attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Carpenter employs media and PR agencies in the US and Europe who cultivate the image of an artist who was eccentric and ingenious from an early age. Carpenter studied at the Juilliard School in New York (master degree) with Gerre Hancock, John Weaver and Paul Jacobs. He worked briefly as an artist-in-residence at the Middle Collegiate Church in New York and gives concerts regularly in the major American and European music centers. His album Revolutionary was nominated for a 2009 Grammy .

Cameron Carpenter sees organ music as secular; He not only serves the classical organ repertoire, but also plays arrangements of piano and orchestral music. According to his own account, he arranged the entire 5th Symphony by Gustav Mahler for the organ, but so far he has only performed the last movement (rondo finale). His organ versions of Chopin's etudes question the limits of traditional playing style. For example, he plays the runs in the “Revolutionary Etude” (op. 10 No. 12) and the “Etude on the Black Keys” (op. 10 No. 5) in parallel with his hands and feet. According to his own statement, his classical dance training comes to the rescue.

Carpenter caused a stir in the summer of 2010 when he separated from his longtime agent and impresario Richard Torrence. Torrence then, in an open letter to journalists, accused Carpenter of defrauding him of $ 53,000. There was no judicial clarification of the allegations because Torrence died unexpectedly in early February 2011.

Carpenter lives in Berlin and regularly gives concerts on the large Schuke organ in the Berlin Philharmonic . In 2012 he received the Leonard Bernstein Award , in 2015 he received the ECHO Klassik as Instrumentalist of the Year . In the 2017/18 season he was artist in residence with the Berliner Konzerthausorchester on Gendarmenmarkt , where he also performed with his own organ.

criticism

The organist and university professor Torsten Laux wrote in 2012 in a CD review for the trade journal organ of “senseless gimmicky” and heard a “penetrating nervousness” in Carpenter's 2008 game. At the same time one has to “acknowledge”: “Here a musician who is uncompromising in his own way puts a synthesizer (fed with sampled organ sounds) into the limelight with unconventional, refreshing vitality [...]. But the unnatural sounds and the self-loving attitude of the player in their unchangeable, monotonous intrusiveness can hardly be endured for the entire 64 1/2 minutes of playing time. "

International Touring Organ

Since the beginning of 2014, Cameron Carpenter has been playing on his own instrument among other things. In March 2014, the artist presented his specially made instrument with five manuals and pedal at a concert in New York's Lincoln Center for the first time. In Europe, the organ was first presented in May 2014 in the former Delphi silent film cinema in Berlin. The "International Touring Organ" was manufactured by Marshall & Ogletree .

Audio and video documents

  • 2006: Pictures of an Exhibition - CD / DVD
  • 2008: Cameron Carpenter: Revolutionary - CD / DVD, Telarc
  • 2010: Cameron Live! - CD / DVD, Telarc
  • 2014: If You Could Read My Mind - CD / DVD, Sony Classical
  • 2016: All You Need Is Bach - CD, Sony Classical

Movie

  • Cameron Carpenter and the rebirth of the "Queen of Instruments". (Alternative title: Cameron Carpenter: The Sound of my Life. ) Documentary, OmU , Germany, USA, 2014, 54 min. , Script and director: Thomas Grube , production: Boomtown Media, Wowow, ZDF , arte , series: arte in concert , First broadcast: July 21, 2014 by arte, table of contents by ARD .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bucklesweet Media. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 4, 2014 .
  2. ↑ GRAMMY.com. Retrieved May 21, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Slipped Disc. Retrieved July 4, 2014 .
  4. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winners 2015 ( Memento from September 19, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Accessed on October 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ Konzerthaus Blog - “The organ only knows yes or no.” Accessed on July 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Torsten Laux : review. Cameron Carpenter - Revolutionary. ( Memento of May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: organ - Journal für die Orgel , 2012, No. 2, p. 55, archived by Internet Archive .
  7. ^ OPUS 8 - Cameron Carpenter's International Touring Organ. In: marshallandogletree.com. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  8. ^ Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. AllMusic, accessed February 16, 2017 .
  9. ^ Revolutionary. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Cameron Live! Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
  11. ↑ If You Could Read My Mind. April 1, 2014, accessed February 16, 2017 .
  12. ↑ All You Need Is Bach. June 3, 2016, accessed February 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Cameron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carpenter, Taylor Cameron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Meadville , Pennsylvania