STEFAN TEMMINGH Recorder

The Mastermind on the Recorder

Virtuosity and musicality combined with visionary genius. – As 2022 prize winner of the prestigious German OPUS Klassik Award in the category “Concerto Recording of the Year” for his CD “Leipzig 1723” South African recorder player Stefan Temmingh has left all the recorder clichés behind him long ago. With every project he breaks new ground, enlarges the repertoire, raises the bar and creates new traditions for his instrument.

His expressivity, his powerful playing and vivid stage presence have placed him in the top league of recorder players, bringing him standing ovations worldwide. He performs internationally with his own baroque ensemble or with orchestras which he often conducts from the soloist desk.

For his CD projects Stefan Temmingh has received some of the internationally most renowned distinctions, for example the OPUS Klassik and the ECHO Klassik Awards, the International Classical Music Award, the “Editor’s Choice” of Gramophone Magazin as well as the “Diapason d’or”.

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“The new reference for this repertoire [Vivaldi]” — DIAPASON D’OR

“A class of its own [Vivaldi]” — GRAMOPHONE

“Brilliant, spontaneous, playful”” — FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG

“Never before did recorder playing sound so effortless and so differentiated in terms of timbre and dynamics” — CORRIERE DELLA SERA

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Temmingh & Koell – CD Project “Sound Stories”

Stefan Temmingh (recorder & csakan) Margret Koell (triple harp & single action harp). Music from five centuries and six countries, played on nine recorders and three harps: “Sound Stories”, the [...]

Temmingh & Capricornus – OPUS Award 2022 for CD “Leipzig 1723”

The Leipzig Tomaskantor Election 1723 Bach and his competitors – Fasch, Graupner & Telemann. German recorder concertos & chamber music works with Capricornus Consort Basel (Accent, Sept. 2021). Winner of [...]

Temmingh & Mields – Telemann CD

Cantatas & Instrumental Works with Dorothee Mields & The Gentleman's Band (Accent, Oct. 2020). Recorder player Stefan Temmingh and soprano Dorothee Mields have been working together intensively for seven years [...]

Stefan Temmingh – Professor at the Freiburg University of Music

Starting in the winter semester 2019/2020 Stefan Temmingh has been appointed professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg! Of course, he continues to perform worldwide and he is working on [...]

Temmingh & Weidanz – Handel CD

The Recorder Sonatas by Georg Friedrich Handel with Wiebke Weidanz, harpsichord (Accent, Jan. 2019). On the CD cover the faces of Stefan Temmingh and harpsichordist Wiebke Weidanz merge. Musically this [...]

Stefan Temmingh – International Classical Music Award 2018

The Vivaldi CD by recorder player Stefan Temmingh and Capricornus Consort Basel has been announced as the winner of the International Classical Music Awards 2018 in the category "Baroque Instrumental". [...]