Jonathan Paul Cambry

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Jonathan Paul Cambry known as PianoPlaya is a Haitian-American Romantic period pianist, freelance music instructor of multiple forms of music and computer expert from Chicago and has been playing piano since the age of 3. He was featured on YouTube, then had performances in Europe, Asia and all over the United States most notably the Chicago Symphony Center in 2012.

In 2000, shortly after finishing high school at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Jonathan 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 previously studied also with professor Kuang-Hao Huang, one of the most popular collaborative pianists located in Chicago, IL.

Years ago, Jonathan created the Chicago’s Piano Meetup group. He also worked with in project Sonatasia(video) which originated in California. He now also uses his talents (not currently) to also perform music, work with other programmers, work with other artists on classical, romantic and contemporary music like R&B and hip-hop.

His now current interests include playing and will in the future continue to do performing, improvising and teaching(online and offline) all genres of music from all classical to all contemporary music and graphic designing folders for his students in which you can see in the pictures below. Just for fun in Chicago, Jonathan's personal interests include many sports as well! He believes that learning the piano is the greatest start to doing music of all forms and help with other abilities.

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

One of Cambry's favorite one of his favorite romantic period pieces, featured on YouTube, composed by Frederic Chopin, recorded in Chicago