Cameron Carpenter is an American organist and composer who has been both criticized and praised for his unorthodox interpretations of the standard organ repertoire. Born in Pennsylvania, Carpenter was homeschooled from 1981 – 1992 and then attended the American Boychoir School (Princeton, NJ) from 1993 – 1995. He also attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts from 1996 – 2000 (high school diploma) and The Juilliard School, New York, NY from 2000 – 2006 (Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance 2004; Master of Music in Organ Performance, 2006).

The first organist nominated for a GRAMMY Award for the album Revolutionary, Carpenter signed a publishing contract in 2009 with Edition Peters. Then in 2010, Carpenter emigrated to Germany. He has been a featured speaker at TED, IdeaCity, Aspen Ideas Festival and received the Leonard Bernstein Award in 2012. Carpenter was also the first Organist-In-Residence for the Philharmonic Berlin in the 2012 season and signed a recording contract with Sony Classical in 2013. He tours extensively in the United States, Europe, Russia, China and Australia in a variety of formats (solo, concerto, open air, collaborative, broadcast and others).

Carpenter will perform on the Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ, Opus 3875. The performance’s repertoire includes The Goldberg Variations (Bach), Prelude and Fugue in E‑flat Major ‘St. Anne’, BWV 552 (Bach) and Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky).