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Cameron Carpenter - If You Could Read My Mind / Classicalite interview

We caught up with celebrated organ virtuoso Cameron Carpenter last week in Berlin, where he is touring in support of his Sony Classical disc If You Could Read My Mind (a record that quickly became the top-selling classical album in the United States). Having completed his custom-built, $1,000,000 International Touring Organ (ITO), Carpenter finally has the mobility he needs.

It's no wonder, then, Carpenter was the 2012 winner of the prestigious Leonard Bernstein Award. Since then, he's polished his keyboard skills via numerous transcriptions and collaborations with leading jazz and pop musicians--including the forefather of American minimalism, Terry Riley. We wanted to know how that experience was, how he picks his repertoire and just how he tours with his ITO. READ THE FULL Classicalite INTERVIEW.