Cameron Carpenter

Born: Titusville PA, USA
Education: first piano and organ lessons at age five; organ at the Juilliard School of Music, New York; piano with Miles Fusco and composition with Kendall Durelle Briggs
Breakthrough: 2009, Grammy nomination, as first organist ever
Concerts: worldwide – also in venues without an organ, using his International Touring Organ
In ten words: ‘A fallen angel who gives the organ back its sin’ (Die Zeit)
Debut Rotterdam Philharmonic: 2025

Photo: Dovile Sermokas