Stefan Temmingh (born 1978 in Cape Town) is a South African
recorder
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player who now lives in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
.
He comes from a South African-Dutch family of musicians. In 1998, he moved to Munich to take lessons with
Markus Zahnhausen
Markus Zahnhausen (12 March 1965 – 17 April 2022) was a German Recorder (musical instrument), recorder player and composer.
Life
Born in Saarbrücken, Zahnhausen studied at the with Hermann Elsner. He also learned Slavic studies and musicolo ...
. From 1999 he also studied pedagogy and performance practice at the
Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, where he received his diploma in 2003. Afterwards he continued his studies with
Michael Schneider at the
Musikhochschule Frankfurt
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.
Temmingh's repertoire includes almost the complete original literature of the Baroque period for recorder. He has been engaged with the Ensemble Phoenix Munich, the Berlin Lautten Compagney, at the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, the Audi Summer Concerts and at the Bavarian State Opera. As a specialist for early music he played together with Thomas Boysen, Sergio Ciomei, Joel Frederiksen, Naoki Kitaya, Margret Köll, Karsten Erik Ose,
Maurice Steger
Maurice Steger (born 1971 in Winterthur, Switzerland) is a Swiss recorder player and conductor, mostly in Baroque music.
Career
Maurice Steger is a frequent guest soloist with leading Baroque ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Ber ...
and Olga Watts. In addition to appearances in Germany and South Africa, he has performed in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, France, Russia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lebanon. He has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, OehmsClassics, Christophorus Records, Südwestdeutscher and Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Temmingh's commitment ranges from old to new music. He regularly performs concerts and world premieres of contemporary works, which he also commissions from composers such as Bernhard Lang, Nadir Vassena, Gordon Kampe or Helga Pogatschar.
In 2008 he was awarded the scholarship of the City of Munich for New Music.
Since 2001 Temmingh has been committed to the intercultural interplay of traditional black African and classical European music, which led to a European tour of the baroque ensemble Refugium with the Dizu Kuduhorn Band in 2004.
He has won the 2016
ECHO Klassik Award, Instrumentalist of the Year
His 2018 album ''Vivaldi'' was awarded an International Classical Music Award and the Editor’s Choice of Gramophone
References
External links
Homepage
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1978 births
Living people
South African classical musicians
Recorder players
Oehms Classics artists