Cameron Carpenter - The sound of my life DVD 2014 / A highly personal documentary following American organ virtuoso / Sony Classical

UPC 888430502796

MADE IN HUNGARY

REGION 0 PAL DVD (All regions)

Audio: English 2.0

Runtime: 60 minutes

English Summary:

A new film about the American organ virtuoso s new instrument

"The Sound of My Life" follows virtuoso organist Cameron Carpenter on his journey to realize a dream ten years in the making building his own International Touring Organ and presenting it to the world. The film tells Cameron's personal story, retracing the stages of his life, from his home town in rural Pennsylvania, through his Juilliard School years in New York City, concert performances in major international halls and finally to his current home in Berlin, Germany, describing the long journey to making his ambitious dream a reality. "The Sound of My Life" is directed by Thomas Grube ("Rhythm Is It," "Trip to Asia,""Lang Lang Liszt Now") and presented by Boomtown Media. The film is the companion piecd to Cameron's new album "If You Could Read My Mind" that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Classical Chart.

Taylor Cameron Carpenter (born 1981) is an American organist. In 2009, he became the first organist to ever be nominated for a Grammy Award for his solo album, Revolutionary. He designed and commissioned the International Touring Organ (ITO), a one-of-a-kind, customized, “full-scale portable organ sonically tailorable to any acoustic environment”, which took ten years and cost $2 million to build. Since its premiere in March 2014, he no longer has to learn a new instrument for every performance which he characterized as maddening, and he now tours worldwide to venues that have never had an organ. The story of the ITO is the subject of the 2015 documentary "The Sound of My Life".

Early in 2008, Telarc signed Carpenter to an exclusive five-album recording contract. His Telarc debut album, Revolutionary, was recorded as a CD and DVD at Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City and released September 23, 2008.The title comes from Carpenter's transcription of Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude". The album made Carpenter the first organist ever to receive a Grammy nomination in the category 'Best Solo Instrumental Performance' (without orchestra) for a solo album. His first commercial album was a 2006 CD/DVD, Pictures at an Exhibition, on SeeMusicDVD. It includes his arrangement of the programmatic piano work by Modest Mussorgsky, and his own improvisatory "New York City Sessions". Visuals for the Mussorgsky were created by Marshall Yaeger and his Kaleidoplex. The recording was made at Trinity Church, New York.

Disc 1 - DVD Tracklist / Song list:

1. The Rehearsal
2. Letter to Dad
3. Childhood
4. The First Piano Teacher
5. Becoming an Adult
6. The Making of Cameron
7. Birth of a New Instrument
8. The Next Challenge
9. New Outfit for a New Instrument
10. Move to Berlin
11. The First Encounter
12. Doubts and Advice
13. The First Recording Day
14. Overture to Bernstein's "Candide"
15. Credits