Stefan Temmingh

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.
Stefan Temmingh is part of the young generation of world-class recorder players: “Never before did a recorder 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. The world premiere recording of 18th century ornamented versions of Corelli’s famous sonatas Opus 5 was celebrated by the international music press in 2009.
Stefan Temmingh’s repertoire comprises almost the complete baroque literature for recorder. He has been engaged in ensembles like Ensemble Phoenix Munich, the Berliner Lautten Compagney, at the Ludwigsburg Festival, the Audi Summer Concerts and the Bavarian State Opera Munich. As a specialist for Early Music he played together with Thomas Boysen, Sergio Ciomei, Joel Frederiksen, Naoki Kitaya, Margret Koell, Karsten Erik Ose, Maurice Steger and Olga Watts. In addition to concerts in Germany and South Africa, he has been invited to perform in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, France, Czech Republic, Lebanon, Croatia, Slovakia and Russia. He 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. 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.
Official internet site: www.stefantemmingh.com

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