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25 April 2026 Québec City (Canada)
Cameron Carpenter sets The Phantom of the Opera to music
Cameron Carpenter, organ - Palais Montcalm
Program Info: Palais Montcalm invites you to an exceptional concert, where cinema and a great organ will be in the spotlight. Virtuoso Cameron Carpenter will provide his own soundtrack to the film The Phantom of the Opera . This mythical work of silent cinema, inspired by the novel by Gaston Leroux, will be screened in its restored version, with French subtitles, and will be given a new lease of life, thanks to Carpenter's exceptional acting.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1981, Cameron Carpenter already knew how to interpret Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier , on the organ, at the age of eleven. He subsequently developed not only a dazzling mastery and virtuosity on the instrument, but an undeniable know-how as a composer and arranger.
In 2012, a year after presenting his Concerto for Organ and Orchestra in Germany, he won the Leonard Bernstein Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. Carpenter was artist-in-residence at the Konzerthaus Berlin during the 2017–2018 season, where he transcribed more than a hundred organ works, including Mahler's Fifth Symphony .
In 2014, he set up his International Touring Organ (ITO), a custom-made digital organ, which he has brought to the world's greatest stages. The Covid-19 pandemic has only partially put a brake on his activities, as he played for seniors in confinement, putting his organ behind a truck for 32 concerts under the motto "All you need is Bach!"
In 2024, it was with him that the Palais Montcalm celebrated the 10th anniversary of the great organ, with a memorable concert where he performed the Goldberg Variations and Pictures at an Exhibition
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