Concert

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The young American keyboard virtuoso Cameron Carpenter uses every free moment his hands and feet have to change stops or to adjust the sound intensity with the swell pedals. A physical challenge, which this exceptional musician, born in Pennsylvania in 1981, meets with hard training: “It is incredibly important to keep in shape.” Carpenter has been spoken about since a complete performance he gave of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier when he was only eleven years old. He went on to study organ and composition at the North Carolina School of the Arts, then at the Julliard School in New York. Due to his flamboyant appearance, he is often described today as a “bird of paradise in his field”, he wants to revolutionise the rather dusty image of his instrument. “The musical traditions I deal with,” he says, have “nothing to do with the organ. They belong more to Karajan, Horowitz and Argerich.”

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