Carl Cranmer made his 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. His eclectic solo repertoire ranges from Sweelinck to Kapustin, and has performed chamber music with the Grammy-winning Takacs Quartet, violinist Axel Strauss and Akiko Suwanai, and tenor Robert White,among others. Of his performance of Liszt's Concerto No. 2, The New York Times' James Oesterreich remarked "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's 2018-19 season includes performances the quartet version of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Dali Quartet, and solo recitals in Anchorage, Alaska, Salt Lake City, UT and Krakow, Poland, and Beijing and Guangzhou, China. He will also have an interview and play on Philadelphia's Classical station, WRTI in October.have been televised in Madrid, Tokyo, Montreal, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia, and have been aired on American National Public Radio, and radio stations in Tokyo, New York, Montreal, Boston, and Atlanta. He performed two solo concert tours of Spain, and also concertized in France, England, Austria, Japan, South Korea, China, and Canada. His recordings include a solo album titled "Soirée", of the music of Poulenc, Fauré, Liszt, Granados, Chopin and Samuel Barber. In 2010 he recorded Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto with the Russian Philharmonic, and in 2015 released a CD of Barber's complete published solo piano music, recorded in Seoul, South Korea. In summer, 2019 he plans to record a CD of Rachmaninov's Suite Nos. 1 and 2 and other pieces for two pianos with Korean pianist Young-Ah Tak. Cranmer has performed in Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Weill Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and the Academy of Music, Verizon Hall and the Perelman Theater in Philadelphia. Dr. Cranmer was the Grand Prize winner of the 1994 Missouri Southern Piano Competition, and also won the Spanish Music Prize and Finalist Prize in the 1995 Santander Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition in Santander, Spain. Cranmer received his Doctoral and Masters degrees, and Professional Studies Certificate from the Juilliard School, and his undergraduate degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In the summer of 2013 and 2014, he was on the summer piano faculty of the Cooper Piano Festival at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and in 2017 was invited to be on the summer piano faculty of the Interlochen Music Festival. Most recently, he became a Visiting Artist Faculty member at the Guangdong Open College-Conservatory in Foshan, China. In August of 2018 he was invited to be a member of the international jury for the 12th Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition in Foshan, China. Cranmer is an Associate Professor at the Wells School of Music at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and is currently the Artistic Director of the American Piano Forum (APF) at West Chester University, begun in 2016.
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