Freddy Kempf

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Freddy Kempf, 2017

Freddy Kempf (born October 14, 1977 in Croydon (London) ) is an English pianist .

Life

Freddy Kempf is the son of a German and a Japanese . He received his first piano lessons at the age of four; from six to 14 years old he was tutored by Ronald Smith. At the age of eight he made his concert debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra .

Kempf has won various piano competitions, and in 1992 he was the youngest participant to win the BBC Young Musician competition in Glasgow . He also became internationally known because he did not take first, but only third place at the 1998 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow . This sparked protests from the public and the Russian press, which referred to him as the “hero of the competition”. In 2001 he won the Classical BRIT Awards as "Young British Classical Performer".

Kempf performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, including at Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall . He works with renowned orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , the Dresden Philharmonic , the San Francisco Symphony , the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra , the Philadelphia Orchestra , the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra .

He recorded numerous CDs for the Swedish label BIS Records with works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven , Frédéric Chopin , Franz Liszt , Sergei Rachmaninov and Robert Schumann, among others . In March 2006 his first Bach CD entitled Freddy Kempf Plays Bach was released.

Kempf is married to the violinist and concertmaster Katja Lämmermann and lives near Munich .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Classical Today: Freddy Kempf. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Freddy Kempf | Biography & History. In: allmusic. Retrieved July 27, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Freddy Kempf Piano Series. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ BIS Records - Kempf, Freddy. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Martin Bülow: The Kempf (fs) and the Dresden Philharmonic. In: Dresden Philharmonic. June 21, 2015, accessed July 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ BBC news (ed.): Classical Brits for ex-factory worker . June 1, 2001 (English, bbc.co.uk [accessed July 27, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Freddy Kempf. In: IMG Artists. November 4, 2016, accessed July 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Exceptional musical couple. In: merkur.de. November 15, 2017, accessed July 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kempf, Freddy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English pianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH London