Freddy Kempf

Freddy Kempf is certainly one particular uncommon pianists whose artistic sensibilities and all-encompassing technique seem perfectly in the home in the music of such polar opposites as J.S. Bach and Prokofiev, Chopin and Schnittke, Tchaikovsky and Bartók, and many more. His eclectic character might be related to his cosmopolitan history: created in London to a German dad and Japanese mom, he lives in Berlin and, besides British, is definitely fluent in Russian, French, and German, and will fairly well with Japanese, Italian, and Spanish. The chameleonic Kempf also takes on the violin and harmonica, but his link with the piano will go deep: his grandfather was the fantastic German pianist Wilhelm Kempff. Freddy Kempf devotes a lot of his concert routine to recitals, but also frequently appears like a soloist and chamber participant. He offers concertized over the U.K., European countries, Asia, Japan, Australia, as well as the Americas. He offers made several recordings, many of them obtainable from your BIS label. Created in 1977, Freddy Kempf started piano lessons at four and nearly immediately exhibited amazing skill. At eight he debuted at Royal Event Hall inside a performance from the Mozart Piano Concert No. 12, K. 414, using the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Beneath the assistance of Ronald Smith, with whom he analyzed from age group 6-14, Kempf matured quickly and in 1987 received the U.K.’s Country wide Mozart Competition. In 1992 Kempf gained the nationally televised BBC Teen Musician of the entire year Competition, getting the youngest performer up compared to that time to earn this prestigious competition. Kempf’s advanced research were on the Royal Academy of Music in London and School of London. While Kempf acquired further competition achievement, notably on the 1996 Youthful Concert International Auditions, which afforded him a debut concert at Carnegie Hall, he appreciated his greatest profession boost not really from a competition success but from his questionable third-place finish on the 1998 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow. There Kempf was the market favorite and regarded as the easy selection of the jury. Fees of jury bias with the media as well as the market ensued and Kempf became an right away sensation. On the come back concert tour to Moscow in 1999 he made an appearance in a string sold-out concerts and acclaimed televised shows. His first documenting also emerged in 1999, a Compact disc on BIS entitled Freddy Kempf Has Schumann, which provided highly praised shows of Carnaval and various other Schumann works. The next calendar year, with violinist Pierre Bensaid and cellist Alexander Chaushian, he founded the Kempf Trio. In the brand new century Kempf provides regularly toured the world, often showing up at high-profile occasions, much like the Oct 2004 inaugural concert from the Shanghai Concert Hall and his Apr 2006 and Apr 2011 single engagements at Royal Albert Hall using the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Kempf’s recordings have already been streaming from BIS on the price of several per year. Significant among them is certainly his 2004 Beethoven piano trios, using the Kempf Trio, and 2011 Compact disc of functions by J.S. Bach, Rachmaninov, Ravel, and Stravinsky.