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.

German radio SWR Kultur describes him as “one of the great recorder virtuosos of our time”. 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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Stefan Temmingh – Professor at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague

From autumn 2025, Stefan Temmingh will also teach as a professor at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. He will of course continue his professorship at the Freiburg University of Music. [...]

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 - awarded with [...]

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 [...]

CONCERTS

> Past concerts

Hongkong – City Hall Concert Hall

27. August 2026, 20:00

Baroque concert "Bach's Legacy" with Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Co-direction with Sebastian Wienand (harpsichord)

Hong Kong – City Hall Concert Hall

29. August 2026, 20:00

Orchestra concert with Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Conductor: Yip Wing-sie. Recorder concertos RV 443 by Antonio Vivaldo & “Moonchild's Dream” by Thomas Koppel

Cathedral Concerts Königslutter – Imperial Cathedral

19. September 2026, 19:30

Duo concert “Sound Stories” with Margret Koell (historical harps). Works by Bach, Scarlatti, van Eyck and by Debussy, Gluck, Koppel, Klaus Lang, Satie etc.

Visp – Theater La Poste

3. October 2026, 19:30

„Birds“ with Dorothee Mields (soprano) & ensemble. Works by Handel, Keiser, Schmelzer, Telemann, Torri, Vivaldi etc.

WDR Early Music Days Herne – Cultural Centre, Main Hall

13. November 2026, 16:30

Recorder consort concert with students of the Freiburg University of Music. Works by Dowland, Simson, Locke etc.

WDR Early Music Days Herne – Cultural Centre, Main Hall

14. November 2026, 12:00

Duo concert “Festa della follia” with Margret Koell (baroque harp). Works by Castello, Eccles, Marais, Weiss etc.

Berlin – Pierre Boulez Saal

24. November 2026, 19:30

„Pills to Purge Melancholy“ with Dorothee Mields (soprano) and Capricornus Consort Basel. Works by Purcell from King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, Dido and Aeneas, etc.

machernbaroque – Machern Monastery

27. November 2026, 18:00

Baroque concert with Valer Sabadus (countertenor) and the Lautten Compagney Berlin. Concertos by Vivaldi and Telemann

Brunsbuettel – Elbeforum

5. December 2026, 20:00

Solo programme “My Playground”. Works by Bach, Debussy, van Eyck, de Man, Monk, Romitelli, Telemann etc.