Stefan Temmingh

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Stefan Temmingh (* 1978 in Cape Town ) is a South African recorder player .

He comes from a South African-Dutch family of musicians. In 1998 he moved to Munich to take lessons from Markus Zahnhausen . From 1999 he also studied pedagogy and performance practice at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich , where he received his diploma in 2003. He then continued his studies with Michael Schneider at the Frankfurt University of Music .

Temmingh's repertoire includes almost the entire original literature of the Baroque period for recorder. He received engagements with the Ensemble Phoenix Munich, the Berlin Lautten Compagney , at the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival, the Audi Summer Concerts and at the Bavarian State Opera . As a specialist in early music , he played a. A. together with Thomas Boysen, Sergio Ciomei, Joel Frederiksen, Naoki Kitaya, Margret Köll, Karsten Erik Ose, Maurice Steger and Olga Watts. In addition to appearances in Germany and South Africa, he has given concerts in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, France, Russia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lebanon. He took part in recordings for Harmonia Mundi, OehmsClassics, Christophorus Records, Südwestdeutsche and Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Temmingh's commitment ranges from old to new music . He regularly performs concerts and premieres of contemporary works, which he himself commissions from composers such as Bernhard Lang , Nadir Vassena , Gordon Kampe and Helga Pogatschar .

In 2008 he was awarded a scholarship from the City of Munich for New Music.

Since 2001 Temmingh has been committed to the intercultural interaction of traditional black African and classical European music, which in 2004 led to a European tour of the baroque ensemble Refugium with the Dizu Kuduhorn Band.

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