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Freddy Kempf

Freddy Kempf is considered one of the most successful pianists of our time, performing in sold-out concert halls all over the world. With his unusually broad repertoire, he has steadily built up a reputation as both a risk-taker and a sensitive and profound artist.

Freddy has worked with renowned conductors such as Järvi, Dutoit, Sawallisch, Sanderling, Chailly, Ashkenazy, Petrenko, Oramo, Davis, Belohlavek, Temirkanov, Weller, Altinoglu, Dausgaard and has given concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, La Scala Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, HHK Symphony Orchestra and others. with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, La Scala Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, NHK Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, Tonhalle Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic.

Highlights of recent years include Freddy's debut at the BBC Proms and extensive Asian concert tours to South Korea (Seoul Arts Centre), Singapore (Esplanade Concert Hall) and Taiwan. He has been a welcome guest conductor and pianist on tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and has been invited by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra for 12 concerts in England. "Kempf is a pianist in a million... the incredible definition of Rachmaninov's inner filigree which emerges all the clearer for a refusal to use the sustaining pedal to blur the sound... his colossal but perfect weight simply stuns." (The Arts Desk)

In the 2019/2020 season, Freddy Kempf traveled to Japan again and gave solo recitals in Kanagawa, Tokyo and Osaka as well as concerts with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra (Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto). With the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra he played Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F in Yerevan and appeared as soloist in Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos 2&3 with the Siberian Symphony Orchestra in England.

Freddy Kempf has also given solo recitals in the most important international concert halls, including the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Berlin Konzerthaus, Herkulessaal, Milan Conservatory, London's Cadogan, Barbican, Manchester's Bridgewater, het Concertgebouw, Sydney Opera House and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. This season he will be performing as part of the Birmingham International Piano Series and at the House of Music in Moscow.

Freddy Kempf records exclusively for BIS Records. His latest recording of sonatas by Prokofiev was released in October 2019. Previous recordings have been highly praised by critics, his solo CD of works by Tchaikovsky in 2015 and another solo CD of works by Schumann in 2013. In 2010, his recording of Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto with the Bergen Philharmonic under Andrew Litton was nominated for the prestigious Gramophone Concert Award. This was followed by another CD with works by Gershwin for piano and orchestra, in the same constellation, which was released in 2012 and was described by the press as "beautiful, stylistic and elegant...magnificent". There were similar reactions from BBC Music Magazine for the CD released in 2011 with works by Bach/Busoni, Ravel and Stravinsky.

Born in London, Freddy Kempf first performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 8. He won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition at the age of 14.

When he was awarded "only" 3rd prize at the XI International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1998, there were loud protests from the audience and the Russian press, who declared Freddy to be "the true hero of the competition".

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