TORRENCE/YAEGER VPO™ is “different from the others” because the organization that owns the new virtual pipe organ company is Anchor-International Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization organized in New York State in 1997. Anchor, which administers the Albert Schweitzer Music Award and the Virgil Fox Legacy, has also created “Models of Excellence,” a multi-dimensional initiative—under the direction of Cameron Carpenter—to benefit the 21st Century organ and organist.

Models of Excellence has a program for the “Sustainable Organ”; a “PipeSource” recording project to sample and archive historical pipe organs; an educational “salon” that mentors young and gifted musicians who want to explore the organ—classical, theatrical, or jazz—in all its guises; and the support of a “Touring VPO™ program” so that the organ can again become as popular a concert instrument in the 21st century as it had been in the 19th and 20th centuries.

All after-tax profits from TORRENCE/YAEGER VPO™ benefit Anchor-International Foundation, and the foundation provides an “anchor” for the most complex and often most exciting and versatile of solo keyboard instruments.

Anchor-International Foundation

“Promenade” from Modest Moussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, arranged and performed by Cameron Carpenter at Trinity Wall Street