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Stefan Temmingh is part of the young generation of world-class recorder players: "Never before did recorder playing sound so effortless and so differentiated in terms of timbre and dynamics." wrote Corriere della Sera (Milano, Italy) on his debut CD "Corelli à la mode" published by the German label OehmsClassics which was celebrated by the international music press in 2009. His second CD “The Gentleman’s Flute” was immediately nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2011 (formerly MIDEM Awards). Since then, Stefan is regularly compared to the legendary Frans Brüggen.

 

Stefan Temmingh comes from a Dutch-South-African family of musicians. He was born in 1978 in Cape Town and now lives in Munich. There, he studied with Markus Zahnhausen as well as with Prof. Michael Schneider in Frankfurt.

 

As a specialist for Early Music Stefan Temmingh’s repertoire comprises the complete baroque literature for recorder. He performs internationally as a chamber musician and with his own baroque ensemble, e.g. at the Bach Weeks Thuringia, the Audi Summer Concerts, the Varazdin Baroque Evenings (Croatia) and at various Early Music festivals and concert series such as musikerlebnis Munich or in Amilly (France). As a soloist he plays with orchestras such as the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen, the Hofkapelle Muenchen, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and at the Ludwigsburg Festival. He has participated in recordings for Harmonia Mundi, OehmsClassics, Christophorus Records, the Southwest German and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporations.

 

Stefan's commitment ranges from baroque to modern music. One of his strong desires is to extend the boundaries of the recorder repertoire and he succeeds to surpass the usual stereotypes concerning his instrument. He commissions works by contemporary composers and performs premieres and concerts of new music. In 2008 he was awarded the contemporary music scholarship of the City of Munich. Since 2010 he has a lectureship at the Munich College of Music.

 

Biography (short version)

Stefan Temmingh is part of the young generation of world-class recorder players. Born in Cape Town in 1978, he comes from a Dutch-South-African family of musicians and now lives in Munich.
As an Early Music specialist he plays throughout Europe with his baroque ensemble at renowned festivals. As a soloist he plays with various baroque and chamber orchestras. He also initiates and participates in numerous projects and premieres of contemporary music. In 2008 Stefan Temmingh was awarded the Scholarship for New Music of the City of Munich. His debut CD "Corelli à la mode" was celebrated by the international music press in 2009, his second CD “The Gentleman’s Flute” was immediately nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2011. Since then, Stefan is regularly compared to the legendary Frans Brüggen.