Messe Solennelle - Rockefeller Memorial Chapel - University of ...

cameron
carpenter
lOvE and DEatH
SUNDAy APRIL 15, 5 PM
Tickets $10 general / free to students with ID
The incomparable Cameron Carpenter brings his prodigious virtuosity to
Rockefeller’s E.M. Skinner organ, with a program including selections
from his own Visions of the Organ from Space (Science Fiction Series)
and dazzling and unconventional arrangements of classics.
“A technique the likes
of which I don’t think
has existed on this
planet… because if
it had, we would all
know about it.”
John Weaver,
Juilliard School of Music
Cameron Carpenter by Michael Hart.
Additional photography by Maeri Hedstrom,
Jimmy Jeong, Robert Leslie, Chris Owyoung,
Marine Penvern, Peter Ross, and Suzanne Schaffer.
Cameron Carpenter’s organ concerts have generated a level of acclaim,
exposure, and controversy unprecedented for an organist. Born in 1981,
he was a keyboard prodigy, performing Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier at age
11 before joining the American Boychoir School in 1992 as a boy soprano.
Trained at the Juilliard School of Music under Gerre Hancock, John Weaver,
and Paul Jacobs, he studied simultaneously with New york-based piano
coach Miles Fusco, with whom he continues to work. His first album for
Telarc, Revolutionary, made him the first organist ever nominated for a
Grammy Award for a solo album.
This is the third annual recital in the Brian Gerrish Organ Performance Series.
The Brian Gerrish Organ Performance Series is made possible by a generous
endowment given to honor Divinity School professor emeritus Brian Gerrish
and to promote the joy of listening to world class organ performance!
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