BIOGRAPHY
1981–2000
Born 1981, April 17, Titusville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; homeschooled, first piano and organ lessons 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 Europe with the School as a chorister, accompanist and keyboard soloist, occasional boy 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 to homeschooling, first arrangements for organ: 1995–1996. Attended North Carolina School of the Arts 1996—2000; studies with Dr. John E. Mitchener (organ) and Clifton Matthews (piano), 1996–2000, high school diploma 2000. Organist and Music Associate, First Baptist Church; House Organist, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, both Winston-Salem, NC, 1997–2000; many arrangements and transcriptions for organ, mostly of orchestral and piano works, about 1997–present.
2000–2009
The Juilliard School 2000–2006 (Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance 2004; Master of Music in Organ Performance 2006); studies with Dr. Gerre Hancock (2000–2002), Dr. John Weaver (2002–2003), Paul Jacobs (2004–2006); composition coaching with Kendall Durelle Briggs 2002–2006; piano study outside Juilliard with Miles Fusco from 2004.. Management contract with Circles International 2005; first commercial recording contract Telarc® International 2007; debut album Revolutionary released; designed and introduced Marshall & Ogletree organ, Opus 4 at Middle Collegiate Church, New York, NY (destroyed by fire 2020); extensive touring USA, London, Moscow, Leipzig, Melbourne, others; guest on Vinicio Capossela’s Da Solo 2008. First organist nominated for a GRAMMY Award for a solo album (for Revolutionary); publishing 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 for Europe, UK, Russia & Oceania; soloist at YouTube Symphony, Sydney Opera House, 2011. Global touring, orchestral engagements, media since 2011. Management contract with CAMI Music LLC for U.S.A. and Asia; featured speaker/performer at TED, IdeaCity, The Entertainment Gathering, other conferences; Lincoln Center debut; BBC Proms debut; Leonard Bernstein Award, 2012. First Organist-In-Residence, Philharmonie Berlin, Season 2012–2013; Manchester International Festival Michelangelo Sonnets with Peter Sellars and Eric Owens; Tokyo debut; exclusive contract with Sony Classical 2013. Organ soloist in Terry Riley’s concerto At The Royal Majestic, Los Angeles, Geneva, and Berlin; recorded Henry Brant’s Ice Field with San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas; International Touring Organ debut festival at Lincoln Center, converted most activities to ‘I.T.O.’, 2014. Extensive global touring with International Touring Organ in U.S.A., Europe, Russia, China, Australia from 2014–early 2020 in live formats including recital, orchestral, open air, festival, television, silent film accompaniment, corporate entertainment and other applications. Aspen Institute Harman-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 Symphony Orchestra, 2015. Designed and debuted George W. Mergens Memorial Organ at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts; established year-round I.T.O. laboratory at Black Box Music, Berlin; organ & orchestra version of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on 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 Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Philharmoniker, Orchestre National du Lyon, Radio Symphony Orchestra Wien, Graz Philharmonic, others, 2018–2019.
2019–Present
Rachmaninoff Paganini recorded with I.T.O. and Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Christoph Eschenbach for Sony Classical, 2019. Designed and directed installation of 246 site-specific installations of I.T.O. for 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 Symphony, Columbus Symphony, 2019. 75 ‘#organtruck’ all-Bach concerts at disabled and elder care facilities across greater Germany; Rheingau Music Festival production with I.T.O. for Deutsche Telekom; Opus Klassik Award (Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini); organ soloist on Epic Orchestra: New Sound of Classical, 2020.
Dissolution of I.T.O. due to losses inflicted by Covid-19 pandemic, summer 2021; various concerts in USA, Europe, etc.; Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut, 2022.
DISCOGRAPHY
Carpenter, Cameron. Bach & Hanson. Decca Gold: 2021. CD: B09DT4ZLKG
Carpenter, Cameron, with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn under Dirk 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 of Paganini. Sony Classical: 2019. CD: 88985390822
Carpenter, Cameron, with San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. Henry Brant: Ice Field. SFS Media: 2019. CD: 190296892226
Carpenter, Cameron. All You Need Is Bach. 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 Music, 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 / 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 Music. Track 3: Ever After (vocal credit as Taylor Carpenter). Virgin Records: 1994. CD: 8 39880 2