Cameron Carpenter Fairfield U 01-15-17

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Cameron Carpenter performs at Fairfield University on Jan. 28.

Cameron Carpenter plays Saturday Jan. 28 at the Quick Center for the Performing Arts at Fairfield University.

Cameron Carpenter is having a ball smashing the stereotypes of organists and organ music, all the while generating international acclaim and controversy unprecedented in his field.

Acclaimed for his bad-boy reputation and his flawless technique, Carpenter will perform using the International Touring Organ — a monumental digital organ of his own design, officially introduced with two Lincoln Center concerts in March 2014. It is a sight — and sound — to behold.

“Carpenter is one of the rare musicians who changes the game of his instrument… He is a smasher of cultural and classical music taboos. He is technically the most accomplished organist I have ever witnessed… And, most important of all, the most musical.” — The Los Angeles Times

To call Cameron Carpenter a virtuoso seems wholly inadequate. Hyper-talented and flamboyant, his repertoire — from the complete works of J.S. Bach and César Franck, to his hundreds of transcriptions of non-organ works, his original compositions, and his collaborations with jazz and pop artists — is perhaps the largest and most diverse of any organist.

His Sony Music debut album If You Could Read My Mind entered Billboard’s Traditional Classical chart at No. 1 on its U.S. release and made Carpenter the first solo organist ever nominated for a Grammy Award for a solo album.

Saturday
January 28
2017
@7:00 p.m.
$55, $50 | $5 Fairfield University Students
QCA Member Price: $38

an announcement from the Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University

Watch Cameron Carpenter on modern music in this interview with Axel Brüggemann:

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