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Freddy Kempf Piano
Freddy Kempf has become one of the most important young artists of today performing to sell-out audiences all over the world. He has built a unique reputation both as an explosive and physical performer as well as serious, sensitive and profoundly musical artist. The Daily Telegraph wrote “Kempf has the maturity and musicality with which to harness his gifts to artistic ends. He has the fearless exuberance of youth. He is prepared to take risks, a readiness that brings spontaneous combustion to his playing; but he has sensitivity, too.”
Many international debuts followed including engagements at the Munich Gasteig, the Alter Oper in Frankfurt, Berlin’s Philharmonie & Konzerthaus, New York’s 92nd Street “Y”, Chicago’s Grant Park festival, Vienna’s Musikverein & Konzerthaus, Salzburg’s Mozarteum and the Concertgebouw amongst others. His immense versatility as a performer has since taken him all over the world from opening the Shanghai Concert Hall in October 2004, to recording Chopin’s Etudes for DVD in a Chateau close to Paris for BBC Television and acclaimed Beethoven Concerto Cycles in London and Sydney.
Current and forthcoming season highlights include engagements with the CBSO, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra with Vladimir Fedoseyev, a return visit to the Sao Paulo Symphony performing Tchaikovsky’s 2nd concerto, the RPO/Slatkin, Lithuanian National Symphony including a tour of all the major UK concert halls, Augsburg Philharmonic, Oregon Symphony, Cagliari Orchestra performing both of Liszt’s piano concerti, the Bergen Philharmonic to perform and record Prokofiev’s 2nd and 3rd Piano Concerti, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and will return to both Australia and Japan and south-east Asia for major tours.
He records exclusively for BIS Records, for whom he has recorded recital discs of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Schumann and will record Prokofiev Concerti and Sonatas in August 2008. Freddy released his first Bach recording and in 2001, he was voted Best Young British Classical Performer in the prestigious Classical Brit Awards.
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