Stefan Temmingh
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Stefan Temmingh (born 1978 in Cape Town) is a Dutch-South African recorder player.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life and education
Temmingh comes from a family of musicians. He moved to Munich, Germany, in 1998 to study with Markus Zahnhausen. In 1999 he started his musical and pedagogical studies at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium Muenchen where he received his diploma in 2003. He continued his musical education at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Frankfurt with Prof. Michael Schneider.
[edit] Career
As a baroque specialist he has been engaged in several baroque ensembles like Neue Duesseldorfer Hofmusik, the Berliner Lautten Compagney and Ensemble Phoenix Munich. In addition to concerts in Germany and South Africa, he has been invited to perform in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Lebanon, Croatia and Russia. His debut CD with world premieres of 18th century embellishments of Corelli sonatas will be launched in early 2009 by OehmsClassics. In 2008 Stefan was invited as a guest player for a CD project of his colleague Maurice Steger.
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, plays and premieres contemporary compositions, for example “Stainless Safari” by Helga Pogatschar in which two recorders are played simultaneously throughout. In 2006 he even played a major solo part in an arrangement of Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel.
In addition, Stefan Temmingh explores the boundaries between traditional South African and classical European music. The collaboration between baroque ensemble Refugium and the Dizu Kuduhorn Band was presented on a celebrated European tour in 2004.
