Musical Arts Society Presents: Carl Cranmer

Join us for a musical afternoon featuring pianist Carl Cranmer, who will be playing pieces from Scarlatti, Chopin, and Borodin. Presented by the Branford Musical Arts Society.

About the Performer:

Carl Cranmer made his orchestral debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age nine, playing Mozart’s Concerto in A Major, K. 488. In addition to solo recitals in Europe, Asia, and North America, he has performed with the Royal Philharmonic of England, the Gulbenkian Orquesta of Portugal, the Juilliard Orchestra and several other orchestras in the U.S. and Asia. Cranmer has performed chamber music with the Grammy-winning Takacs Quartet, violinist Axel Strauss and Akiko Suwanai, and tenor Robert White,among others. The New York Times’ James Oesterreich,commenting on his Liszt 2^nd Concerto performance with the Juilliard Orchestra said, “He made light work of Liszt’s fiendishly demanding octaves, scales, and glissandos, showing a fine lyrical strain to boot. And he did it all with lovely, controlled tone.”  

Cranmer currently a professor of piano at the Wells School of Music at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. In 2016 he became Visiting Artist at the new Guangdong Open College-Conservatory in Foshan, China, and in August 2018 he was invited to be a juror of the international jury for the 12^th Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition in Foshan, China. Cranmer founded and was the director of the American Summer International Piano Forum (APF) at West Chester University, formed in 2016. Cranmer is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Robert Shannon, and The Juilliard School, where he studied with Martin Canin and received his Professional Studies Certificate and Master and Doctoral degrees.