- Stefan Temmingh
Stefan Temmingh (born 1978 in Cape Town) is a Dutch-
South African recorder player.Biography
Early life and education
Recorder player Stefan Temmingh comes from a Dutch-South-African family of musicians and was born in 1978 in Cape Town. From 1998 until his diploma in 2003 he studied in Munich with Markus Zahnhausen and at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium. He continued his musical education at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Frankfurt with Prof. Michael Schneider.
Career
Stefan Temmingh’s repertoire comprises almost the complete baroque literature for recorder. As a specialist for Early Music he has been engaged in several ensembles like Neue Duesseldorfer Hofmusik and the Berliner Lautten Compagney. Among others he played together with Thomas Boysen, Sergio Ciomei, Joel Frederiksen, Naoki Kitaya, Margret Koell, Karsten Erik Ose and Maurice Steger. In addition to concerts in Germany and South Africa, he has been invited to perform in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Lebanon, Croatia and Russia. He participated in recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Christophorus Records, the Southwest German and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporations. His solo CD with world premieres of 18th century ornamented versions of Corelli’s sonatas Opus 5 is released by German label OehmsClassics in January 2009.
Stefan’s commitment ranges from baroque to modern music. It is a strong desire of him to extend the boundaries of the recorder repertoire. He frequently commissions contemporary composers —such as Bernhard Lang, Nadir Vassena, Gordon Kampe or Helga
Pogatschar — and performs premieres and concerts of new music. In 2008 he was awarded the contemporary music scholarship of the City of Munich.In addition, Stefan Temmingh explores the interaction between traditional South African and classical European music. The collaboration between baroque ensemble Refugium and the Dizu Kuduhorn Band lead to a celebrated European tour in 2004.
External links
*http://www.stefantemmingh.com/
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