Jill Kemp (born 24 November 1979, Yorkshire) is a British recorder player.
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Kemp attended Honley Junior School and Honley High School. She took her A-levels at Greenhead College in Huddersfield. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; Goldsmiths College, University of London and with Michala Petri and Piers Adams. She has a sister called Erica.
Kemp has been a professional classical recorder player since 2001. She holds the distinction of being the only recorder player to have won the Royal Over-Seas League's wind and brass competition in its 58 year history.[1] In 2009 she made her Carnegie Hall debut[2] as an IBLA Grand Prizewinner.[3] She performs as a recitalist with harpsichord and piano accompaniment throughout the UK, Europe and the US. In 2005 she stood in for Piers Adams at short notice to perform four concertos with Baroque ensemble Red Priest. She is a panel member on the annual IBLA Grand Prize jury, has delivered masterclasses at venues throughout the Europe and the US, and gives concerts and workshops for the Concordia Foundation. Kemp features on the soundtrack of the 2009 20th Century Fox release Fantastic Mr, Fox[4] and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Kemp’s debut CD of 20th-century British recorder works including repertoire by Gordon Jacob, York Bowen and Malcolm Arnold, with the pianist Aleksander Szram and the Brodowski quartet, was recorded at Potton Hall in September 2010 and will be released in summer 2011. She has appeared on television in Italy, Poland and the USA, and has broadcast on Classic FM and the BBC. She has featured in Classic FM, Muso, Classical Music and Music Teacher magazines. Kemp has given masterclasses at Dartington International Summer School, Wroclaw School of Music and the University of North Dakota. In 2004 she launched an interactive education project Recorder Revolution.[5] Kemp currently teaches recorder at St Paul's School, London and the Pointer School in Blackheath. Kemp has also worked as an actor-musician, including notably with the Manchester-based company Feelgood Theatre Productions,[6] when she played Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mina in Dracula and Nimue in Arthur – King of the Britons. She appeared in the 2009 Eloquent Protest concert at London’s Duke of York's Theatre, alongside Samuel West, Janie Dee and Clive Rowe.[7] Kemp plays instruments by Moeck, Ehlert, Mollenhauer, Kung and Dawson.