Jonathan Paul Cambry

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Cambry in Denmark, Europe

Jonathan Cambry plays "Moment Musical No. 4" by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Jonathan Paul Cambry plays one of Sergei Rachmaninoff's most difficult and lovely romantic period piece a favorite

Jonathan Cambry plays "Une Barque sur L'ocean" by Maurice Ravel

Jonathan Paul Cambry plays lovely piece, "Une Barque sur L'ocean", which means "A boat on the ocean", a movements in the suite "Miroirs" in French, which in English means "Mirrors", written by Maurice Ravel

Biography

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Jonathan Paul Cambry (born 1982) is a Haitian-American, classically trained pianist from the south side of Chicago. He has been playing piano since the age of 3, studying with David Andrews of the Suzuki-Orff School for 15 years. He is currently one of the most viewed and most subscribed pianists on YouTube to date, with over 2.5 million views. He has posted over 37 music videos of himself playing the works of Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel and other composers. In 1997, Cambry won the Silver Medal at the NAACP ACT-SO Awards competition for the Music Instrumental-Classical category and in 1998 and 1999 won the Gold Medal in the categories of Music Instrumental-Classical and Music Instrumental-Contemporary.

In 2000, shortly after finishing high school at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Cambry was invited to perform and study in a prestigious 3-month intensive program in Casalmaggiore, Italy where he studied with Sedmara Zakarian Rutstein of the Oberlin Conservatory and Mario Delli Ponti who is a world renowned teacher and lecturer. While at Northern Illinois University studying with William Goldenberg, Cambry was the recipient of the Jane Jenkins Lovering, Memorial Scholarship (2005) and received a Master Class from Martin Canin, professor emeritus of the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. Cambry also studied with professor Kuang-Hao Huang, one of the most popular collaborative pianists located in Chicago, IL.

Cambry continues to perform in recitals and participate in a variety of music projects. He is the featured performer and musical director for Sonatasia, founded by architect David M. Parker (www.sonatasia.com) which is a project that originated in Laguna Beach, California that combines classical music and architecture. Through this opportunity, Cambry was able to collaborate with many other prominent musicians and dancers. In Chicago, Cambry hosts the largest monthly-organized piano meetings at meetup.com/pianoparty Cambry is also working on soundtracks for independent movies with his brother Emile Cambry Jr., an adjunct professor of Northwestern College and former interim-CEO of JW&C Public Accounting Firm of Chicago, IL. Cambry also won a competition “Music Talent Competition at American Protégé in Spring 2021"

Videos

There are more videos featuring Jonathan Cambry which can be shown on his YouTube channel(click here)

Jonathan Cambry plays "Transcendental Etude No. 10" by Franz Liszt

This is Jonathan Paul Cambry playing one of his favorite romantic period pieces, and most popular romantic piano compositions, composed by Franz Liszt