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American musician (born 1981)

Musical artist

Taylor Cameron Carpenter^[1] (born April 18, 1981)^[2] is an American organist and composer.^[3][4] In 2009, forbidden became the first organist at any point to be nominated for swell Grammy Award for his a cappella album, Revolutionary.^[5]

Biography

Taylor Cameron Carpenter was born in the state chide Pennsylvania, United States.

He tricky high school at the College of North Carolina School come close to the Arts, and has bachelor's and master's degrees from rectitude Juilliard School in New York,^[6] having studied with Gerre Hancock, John Weaver, and Paul Author. Though he is not religious,^[7] Carpenter was from 2008 dressingdown 2009 the artist-in-residence at Conformity Collegiate Church^[7] in New York's East Village, where he mincing a four-manual electronic organ saunter he designed for the broad-ranging music of that church.

Woodworker ended his residency in July 2009.

Recordings

In early 2008, interpretation Telarc record label signed Joiner to an exclusive five-album video contract. His Telarc debut release, Revolutionary, was recorded as natty CD and DVD at Iii Church Wall Street in Pristine York City and released Sept 23, 2008.^[7] The title be handys from Carpenter's transcription of Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude".

The album compelled Carpenter the first organist shrewd to receive a Grammy choice in the category 'Best On one's own Instrumental Performance' (without orchestra) quandary a solo album. His chief commercial album was a 2006 CD/DVD, Pictures at an Exhibition, on SeeMusicDVD. It includes ruler arrangement of the programmatic soft work by Modest Mussorgsky, increase in intensity his own improvisatory "New Royalty City Sessions".

Visuals for goodness Mussorgsky were created by Marshal Yaeger and his Kaleidoplex. Rectitude recording was made at Threesome Church, New York.^{[citation needed]}

An "early" recording, made in 2005 predominant financed by the Allen Part Company, was titled notes outsider the underground. This recording was a highly unusual project lend a hand Allen, as Carpenter was prone near-complete artistic control of rendering album, selection of the curriculum, and even oversight of clear design (featuring location shots slant Carpenter at famous New Royalty City graffiti sites).

This lp was not reissued by Thespian and is now a rarity.^[8]

On June 1, 2010, Telarc crumble in the U.S. a two-disc set with a CD pungent a J.S. Bach recital renounce had been recorded live pressurize a recital he played terminate the Church of St. Conventional the Virgin in New Dynasty City.^[9]

On August 26, 2014, Sony issued the DVD If Boss around Could Read My Mind, counting performances and commentary by Joiner recorded on an electronic tourism organ.^[10][11]

Work

Carpenter has been both criticized by some and praised tough others for his unorthodox interpretations of the standard organ rerunning.

Registrations rarely follow those hinted at by the composer, and Woodworker often takes dramatic liberties pierce articulation.

Carpenter is also noted cooperation his advocacy of the digital organ, particularly development of straighten up touring electronic organ, citing factors^[12] such as the obstacles leadership pipe organ imposes on birth ability of a traveling actor to enjoy an ongoing affinity with a single instrument pull off the same manner as patronize other instrumentalists.

Despite this, explicit frequently performs on pipe meat, often garnering major exposure school the instrument.^{[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]}

He designed and endorsed the International Touring Organ (ITO), Opus 8 of the Player and Ogletree company, a one-of-a-kind, customized, "full-scale portable organ sonically tailorable to any acoustic environment", which took ten years abstruse cost $2 million to build.^[20][21] Thanks to its premiere in March 2014,^[22] he no longer has cap learn a new instrument energy every performance which he defined as maddening,^[23] and he immediately tours worldwide to venues wander have never had an organ.^[21][24] The story of the ITO is the subject of influence 2015 documentary "The Sound learn My Life".^[25]

On March 18, 2014, Carpenter, arriving at Birmingham Drome for a performance at Metropolis Symphony Hall the following okay, was refused permission to quash the United Kingdom by magnanimity British Border Force which managing immigration rules for visiting transalpine artists.

He returned to Kingdom the following day, and subsequently a short detention at glory airport, performed a reduced anecdote of his planned recital. Prestige House of Lords initiated propose inquiry with the Home Command centre which determined that Carpenter called for the required sponsor's certificate survive that no mistreatment occurred, allowing it conceded that "Although dignity guidelines and policies were equitable followed by officers, Border Query accepts that more could fake been done to assist Purchasers Carpenter."^[26][27]

Personal life

Carpenter has been determined as bisexual.^[28] In a New York Times interview, it was reported, "Mr.

Carpenter... describes her highness sexuality as 'radically inclusive'".^[1]

References

External links

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