Cameron Carpenter, organ, at Washington Center for the Performing Arts
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- Cameron Carpenter, organ
César Franck — Choral No. 2 in B minor, FWV 39
César Franck — Choral No. 1 in E major, FWV 38
Johann Sebastian Bach — Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, BWV 552 "St. Anne"
Modest Mussorgsky — Pictures at an Exhibition
Cameron Carpenter is the world's most visible organist, the first ever to be nominated for a Grammy Award for a solo album. He holds the 2012 Leonard Bernstein Award, and in 2014, launched his International Touring Organ (ITO)—a first-of-its kind digital organ built to his own design. He is a virtuoso composer/performer who is smashing the stereotypes of organ and classical music. Cameron's latest album, recorded at the Berlin Konzerthaus, includes his own rendition of Bach's Goldberg Variations as well as Hanson's Symphony No. 2, and was released by Universal / DECCA in the fall of 2021. One of his previous releases, All You Need is Bach, debuted at No. 1 on the traditional classical charts.
Recent highlights include recitals with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Lucerne Festival, Philharmonie Cologne, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Philharmonie Luxembourg, his debut at the Cité de La Musique, Paris, and a residency at Konzerthaus Berlin.
About Cameron Carpenter, organ
Organist and composer Cameron Carpenter—who has performed across the United States and Europe as a chorister, accompanist, and keyboard soloist—was the first organist nominated for a Grammy, for the album Revolutionary (Telarc, 2008). He premiered his first concerto for organ and orchestra, The Scandal, Op. 3, in 2011 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at the Cologne Philharmonie. He also premiered Terry Riley's organ concerto, At The Royal Majestic, in Los Angeles, reprising it in Geneva and Berlin.
http://www.cameroncarpenter.com/