Cameron Carpenter

Description

An organ concert in the Mojo Club on Hamburg’s notorious Reeperbahn – how does that work? It’s actually quite simple: Cameron Carpenter, enfant terrible of the organ music scene, has finally achieved what he has been dreaming of for years: the creation of a digital organ with high-tech loudspeakers that can emulate or even surpass the magnificent sound of conventional pipe organs, but which is also easy to transport. Carpenter has never cared much for conventions or preconceived notions of organ music: »We have ignored the violence of the organ, the sexuality, the sensuality, passion and its all-consuming fire. When I play, the flamboyance, the banality, the shallowness can suddenly be pushed away by some ecstatic attack.« It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the ZEIT newspaper has described him as a »fallen angel« who »wants to give the church organ back its sinfulness«. Cameron Carpenter plays better with his feet than many pianists with their hands and doesn´t accept any technical or stylistic limitations. His performance at the Mojo Club opens a new chapter in organ history.