Cameron Carpenter made history as the first organist ever nominated for a GRAMMY Award for a solo album. His ground-breaking career has been recognized with prestigious honors, including the 2012 Leonard Bernstein Award, along with multiple accolades such as the ECHO Klassik and Opus Klassik Awards.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Carpenter has performed around the globe at renowned venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, and Berlin Philharmonie. His diverse collaborations include commissions from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and KölnMusik GmbH, as well as performances at prestigious events like TED and the Aspen Ideas Festival. Carpenter’s work has brought him to the stage with world-class orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Pittsburgh and Dallas Symphonies, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester and more. He has worked with acclaimed conductors including Alexander Shelley, Manfred Honneck, Tughan Sokhiev, Cornelius Meister, Christoph Eschenbach and Kirill Karabits.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season include performances with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, recitals in Monaco, Lithuania and at the International Organ Week in Nuremberg. In December 2025, he performed at the gala concerts marking the reopening of the Beethovenhalle in Bonn. He recently made guest appearances at the Cologne Philharmonic, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Cité de la Musique in Paris and the Lucerne Festival. He was also engaged as Artist in Residence at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Whether on the world's greatest stages or in more intimate settings, Carpenter never fails to thrill his audience and redefine the artistic possibilities of the organ.
His album "Bach & Hanson", released in 2021 and recorded at the Berlin Konzerthaus, showcases his interpretation of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" alongside Hanson's Symphony No. 2, combining classical mastery with innovation in his own unique way. One of his earlier albums, "All You Need is Bach", reached number 1 in the traditional classical charts.