Cameron Carpenter

• Composer
• Organist

Reviews

Cameron Carpenter press reviews

“To say that Cameron Carpenter is a virtuoso is to say nothing. He is an exorbitant

virtuoso, the Vladimir Horowitz of the organ. In his playing there is the wild passion

of virtuosos of the past, who destroyed borders of genres and broadened repertoire

for their instruments. What he lacks, however, is cheap populism.”

KOMMERSANT (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

“The Maverick Organist... he is a player with extraordinarily glib fingers and Astairelike

footwork... a first-rate talent with a sense of how phrases move.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

“No other musician of Carpenter’s generation has more adeptly fused shrewd showmanship, dazzling technique and profound thinking about his instrument and his

place in the musical cosmos...”

THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE