• 'DEPARTURES' MAGAZINE FEATURES CAMERON
  • Departures, American Express' lifestyle magazine, features an article, Organ Master, on Cameron Carpenter in its May/June 2008 issue.

    In the article, Departures' cultural correspondent Paul Holdengräber writes: "Not since George Frederic Handel have we gotten so excited about an organist. Cameron Carpenter is a superstar of the 21st-century organ. Prodigiously gifted and a born showman..."
  • TELARC® SIGNS CAMERON
  • Cameron has signed a multi-album record contract with TELARC® Digital.

    Cameron's first album, Revolutionary, was recorded and shot March 8, 9, and 10 at Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City. It is scheduled for worldwide release in stores and on iTunes™ (and all other major music downloading sources) on September 23, 2008.     Revolutionary will be a CD+DVD: the CD will contain a generous program of works by composers including J. S. Bach, Jeanne Demessieux, Marcel Dupre, Franz Liszt, and others, and will be the world premiere recording both of Cameron's Love Song No. 1 (2008) and his forthcoming Retrospective Edition of J. S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565. The DVD, directed by Maeri Hedstrom, will contain a three-camera shoot of Cameron performing Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude, J. S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor in Cameron’s edition, and Vladimir Horowitz’ Variations on a Theme from Bizet’s ‘Carmen’.

    “When I first witnessed Cameron’s playing, it was totally engaging,” says Telarc® President Robert Woods. “He was, to me, an amazing combination of a first rate musician, a superb entertainer, and an unbelievable technical whiz. We certainly know and accept that some of what Cameron does is on the edge and will be controversial for some, but he will never be boring.”

    Revolutionary was recorded March 8-10, 2008 on the Marshall & Ogletree organ that Cameron retro-engineered at Trinity Church, Wall Street in New York City. He was given a unique opportunity by Trinity Church and Marshall & Ogletree to personally customize the instrument for his July 2007 recital at the church. Unlimited by constraints of space, expense or physical possibility, he greatly enlarged the instrument. Adding myriad resources found on only the largest church and theatre organs, he also created new registers (multi-rank reed celestes, two 64’ stops) that would be physically or economically impossible to achieve or maintain with pipes. The result is an organ of unprecedented flexibility, speed and expressivity, unfettered by mechanical imperfections.

    “Classical music – and especially the organ - needs to take chances to reach new audiences,” says Woods. “I have no doubt Cameron will succeed in accomplishing this.”

    The Telarc public relations contact for Revolutionary is Amanda Sweet.
  • CAMERON IS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE AT MIDDLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH, NEW YORK CITY
  • Cameron has been appointed Artist-in-Residence at Middle Collegiate Church, in the East Village of New York City. He will play for worship celebrations and will present the organ in various concert, recording, collaboration and teaching roles as a vital part of this ethnically and musically diverse congregation and neighborhood. Dr. Jacqui Lewis is the Senior Pastor; Jonathan Dudley is the Director of Music.

    Middle Collegiate Church, founded in 1628, is one of the leading progessive forces in New York City, committed to a multicultural and multiracial community, robust social justice outreach, and affirmation of same-sex marriage. The current church edifice at Second Avenue and Seventh Street is notable for its original Tiffany windows and interior.
  • REPRESENTATION, AND A NEW WEBSITE
  • Susan Slaymaker, director of Slaymaker Special Projects, is now the exclusive worldwide representative of Cameron Carpenter to concert presenters and the media. Slaymaker Special Projects now administers the websites CameronCarpenter.com, Cameron-Carpenter.com, and OrganShow.com, all of which point to the present site by New York designer Riley Hooker. The new site will be a comprehensive source for information about Cameron's current work, concert dates, and other news.

    "VINTAGE" RECORDINGS
    The new site offers visitors more than an hour of never-before-heard recordings from various archives, and the selection is a fascinating one ranging from popular song to improvisation to core organ literature. A notable highlight (and, as Cameron is now 26, a "vintage" recording) is a pre-Juilliard recording of the complete Trois Chorals of César Franck, recorded on the world's thirteenth-largest organ at Calvary Church in Charlotte, NC when Cameron was 17. The playing is monumentally moving. Available from the same Calvary Church sessions is Messiaen's Dieu Parmi Nous (from La Nativité du Seigneur).

    MAHLER FEATURED
    In response to recent inquiries, Cameron has prepared an Adobe PDF of the last movement of his 1997 transcription of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C# Minor/D Major, which is available as a free download.

    NEW PRESS KIT
    A new international press kit with content in English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Japanese and Traditional Chinese (Spanish for Latin America coming next week) is available for download.

    NEW PICTURES
    Cameron has recently been modeling for the New York fashion and nightlife photographer Adrian Buckmaster and many of his new images, along with a selection of others, are viewable in the "Images" gallery (as well as in the press kit PDF).
  • CAMERON RECORDS WITH VINICIO CAPOSELLA ON WARNER MUSIC
  • Cameron is featured on the forthcoming album by multi-platinum Italian pop star Vinicio Caposella. Frequently described as the "Italian Tom Waits", Caposella sought out Cameron when looking for an organist "without limits". Cameron, Vinicio and the band recorded three songs including "Il Gigante e il Mago" (The Giant and the Magician) on the Wurlitzer organ in the Paramount Theatre in Middletown, NY, on January 17th, and were interviewed by the BBC. The album is forthcoming on Warner Music.
  • AT THE GEWANDHAUS, AND THE AUDITORIO NACIONAL
  • Cameron will appear in two of the great European concert halls in the next year: the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany (home of the Gewandhaus Orchestra), and the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Spain (dates listed under Upcoming Events).

    Further international touring is solidly in the works.
  • CAMERON PLAYS THE JONGEN
  • Cameron will be the soloist in the organ's great romantic concerto, the four-movement Symphonie Concertante by Joseph Jongen, Carmel Symphony Orchestra in Indianapolis, IN. Further information is listed under Upcoming Events.