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Extractions: Freddy Kempf - Biography Now established as one of the most sought-after young pianists in the world, Freddy Kempf was born in London in 1977. He began playing the piano at the age of four and first came to national prominence aged eight when he performed Mozart's Piano Concerto K.414 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, while international attention soon followed with performances of the same concerto in Germany. In 1987 he won the first National Mozart Competition and in 1992 became the youngest ever winner of the biennial BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition subsequently appearing in concerts and on television throughout the world, and working with many of the greatest conductors. His award of third prize in the 1998 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow provoked protests from the audience and an outcry in the Russian press, which described him as "The Hero of the Competition", and his unprecedented popularity with Russian audiences has been reflected in several sold-out concerts and numerous television broadcasts of his performances. His triumphant return visit to the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire in April 1999 for solo and concerto appearances prompted the headline "Young pianist conquers Moscow" in the International Herald Tribune. Recent concerts have included dates at London's Wigmore Hall, New York's 92nd Street "Y", the Salzburg Mozarteum, Cheltenham Festival, La Roque d'Anthéron Festival, Milan Conservatoire, Hamburg's Musikhalle, the Zurich Tonhalle and a month-long tour of Japan, which included solo and orchestral concerts culminating in a recital Tokyo's Suntory Hall that was broadcast on radio and television.
Extractions: Updated 29th July 2001 ! "One of the most exciting talents of any age now before the public." Freddy is now represented by IMG so this site is not kept up to date anymore. What's you'll find on Freddy's site... Profile and concert dates Press coverage Listen to Freddy Kempf Andrys' Freddy Kempf page. News Snippets: (30/07/2001) Freddy has recently returned from a highly sucessful US Tour including concerto performances with the Philidelphia Orchestra. More details and reviews to follow soon. (02/06/2001) Freddy Kempf Wins Classical Brit Award - Brilliant young concert pianist Freddy Kempf was voted Best Young British Classical Performer at the Classical Brit Awards at London's Royal Albert Hall this week. 23 year old British born Freddy is now one of the world's most sought-after young pianists, and his latest recording for the BIS label, a Chopin recital, will be released soon. (16/04/2001) Freddy's new Beethoven disc (the last three piano sonatas) from BIS of the last three sonatas is released next week in the US and has is already in the shops in Europe. See
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Extractions: Rachmaninoff's Second Sonata ... Kempf here chooses the longer version (he prefers the "spontaneous inspiration" of the original) and brings it to life in a performance which recalls Stravinsky's comment to a boorish listener who complained that the length of Schubert's later sonatas put him to sleep. "Yes," said Stravinsky. "But when you awake, you think you are in heaven." The range of Kempf's performance is established in the Sonata's opening pages. The opening chords are molten gold and granite, balanced by chordal passagework ethereal in its lightness and timbral variety. Kempf has a generosity of spirit that enables him to play at the extreme ranges of dynamics and tempo without sacrificing either forward momentum or structural unity. Compared to Horowitz's titanic interpretation of the work (the other great performance on record), I find Kempf more lyrical and refreshingly un-neurotic. This is not to say that there is any lack of virtuosity. The youthful impetuosity of the last movement is startling in its perfectly controlled wildness and passion.
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Extractions: OVERALL NOISE RATING: 5 Dismal- watches and alarms going off repeatedly, child making noise- this is the same kid that has haunted the audience for the past 4 days. Bronchial spasms from the crowd were rather exaggerated in between movements.) The Noise Rating Index is a partially-objective measurement of pager and handphone blasts, 9pm and 10pm watch beeps, coughing-during-the-pianissimo-bits, intra-audience conversation and other mind-bogglingly inept noises emitted in the concert hall during actual performance of music. It is measured on a scale of to 5, in increasing annoyance. This review has been kindly sponsored by the Singapore Symphonia Co. Ltd
Extractions: A Flying Inkpot special courtesy of our UK Inkpotter Marc Bridle This article first appeared in MusicWeb (April 2000) Meeting Freddy Kempf can be a humbling experience. Not yet 23, he is already well on his way to becoming a pianist of considerable greatness (his new Rachmaninov disc is very fine indeed). The paradox is that he is also so incredibly normal and charming, at least by the standards we have come to expect of our musicians. I arrive early for our interview (which overruns) - enough for other artists to throw a tantram or otherwise. Not Freddy, who is happy to start early and carry on. He makes coffee, and slides around the sitting room in socks. His mobile rings, he apologises. He hates hotels and flying, and likes nothing more than driving back from a concert late at night - even if it is several hundred miles away from his North London home. Home is where he loves to be. And he now has a parking space for his car, a passion he mentions often (even if his motor insurance is staggeringly expensive - "It's because musicians work where drinks are sold"). Nowadays he prefers to have the TV on as background music, and relaxes by playing computer games (strategy and role play mostly). Gadgets and the Internet (where he has recently started using Tesco's internet service when he fell ill) are much more his métier nowadays. Just normal, even if his pianism isn't. His love affair with Russia is well known (his young wife is Russian), and his Rachmaninov disc is in part a reflection of this. The opening work is the great Second Sonata, a titanic piece that Kempf has recorded in the original 1913 version. He has played both the 1913 version and the 1931 rewrite in near equal measure, but his views on the merits of the original are compelling.
Extractions: [67:12] full-price by Marc Bridle Marc interviews Freddy Kempf in the UK Following the acclaim of his first disc, Freddy Kempf plays Schumann (BIS 960), the young British pianist has now turned his attention to Rachmaninov. This is in many ways a finer disc, displaying a touch that is mercurial and a tone that gleams like a golden fleece. The sonorities are as fiery as the Phlegethon as Kempf steers a course through Rachmaninov's opulent sound-world. These are performances that float notes as gracefully as any and mix dizzying virtuosity with tempered poetry. The Second Sonata is extremely fine, and Kempf is quite incandescent in his handling of the glittering figuration. The opening chords are volcanic, erupting with a chaotic cloak of colour that mixes vermilion's with scorched yellows. The colours do not so much collide, as coalesce, as the densely chromatic decoration moves almost laterally into passages of the most intimate beauty. This is first and foremost a kaleidoscopic interpretation, one that, whilst perhaps lacking the monumental scale that Horowitz brought to the work, seeks refuge in the lyricism of the Rachmaninov of the Second Concerto. In fact, although Kempf plays the original 1913 version one is constantly aware of him looking back farther to the beginning of the century, and the
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Extractions: Freddy Kempf Third Prize winner at the controversial 1998 Tchaikovsky Competition; ìThe fierce passion and radiant lyricism which he brought to the largest Russian war-horses made for performances of startling imagination and moving humanity.î (Michael Glover, Autumn 1998 International Piano Quarterly)
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New Recommendations Taking on the very Everest of the pianosonata repertoire, kempf acquits himself remarkably well its length the disc is a delight freddy kempf is obviously a pianist to watch http://www.hbdirect.com/Reviews/202bbc1.cfm
Extractions: "...Albinoni's counterpoint emerges with especially transparent geniality. And cpo's recorded sound brings vividly to life the detail so carefully crafted by composer and performers. Recommended on its own merits, and not just because it's the only version in which Albinoni's premiere work is currently available." -Maxham, Fanfare
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Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search to talk of young artists bringing youthful vision to a performance, but there is something special, a raw vitality, in young pianist freddy kempf s playing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4010075,00.html
Extractions: Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs Life MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Dating Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Living our values Newsroom Reader Offers Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Working at GNL Guardian Weekly Money Observer Network home UK news World latest Books ... Search Classical Poise and subtlety RPO/Gatti/Kempf Guardian Unlimited Thursday April 20, 2000 It's a cliche to talk of young artists bringing youthful vision to a performance, but there is something special, a raw vitality, in young pianist Freddy Kempf's playing. This performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, part of the RPO's Beethoven-Stravinsky series, didn't find him at his peak technically, but each phrase was compulsive listening. Beneath the sublimely enjoyable surface of the Fourth Concerto, there's a great deal for a pianist to get stuck into. Kempf was keen to bring the inner voices to our attention; occasionally he made them so prominent that the outer semiquaver lines were too soft. Yet his dancing melodic lines and throwaway scales were a delight. Daniele Gatti, still a dominant force rather than just a cue-giver, drew a soft bloom from the string section for their first entry. A palpable sense of tension built up at the end of the second movement; in the closing Rondo the violas made their two-part melody into a moment of glory.
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Extractions: Wednesday, November 17 - 7:30 p.m. Subscriber Tickets: $29 Non-Subscriber Tickets: $34 The evening's program will be posted here as soon as it becomes available. Freddy Kempf came to public attention when he did not win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1998. This provoked protests from the audience and an outcry in the Russian press. His triumphant return to the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory the following year for solo and concerto appearances prompted the headline "Young Pianist Conquers Moscow" in the International Herald Tribune He has since become a major international soloist with recent engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Sawallisch, San Fransisco Symphony and Tortelier, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Marcello Viotti, NTO and Carlos Kalmar (including a concert at the Musikverein in Vienna) and a complete Beethoven cycle with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniele Gatti. He gives recitals in London, Paris and Tokyo. He records exclusively for BIS records, for whom he has recorded recital discs of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Schumann. In 2001, he was voted Best Young British Classical Performer in the prestigious Classical Brit Awards.
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Extractions: A pianist is a person who plays the piano A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller ensemble , or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Liszt Frederic Chopin ... Robert Schumann , and Sergei Rachmaninov were all virtuoso pianists. Some pianists have special preferences as to which composer's music they play. Most western forms of music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of forms and styles to choose from, including jazz classical music , and all sorts of popular music Well-known or influential classical pianists: See List of jazz pianists Well known blues pianists include: Ray Charles also jazz, and
Pianist - Reference Library A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very Julius Katchen; freddy kempf; Wilhelm kempff; Olga Kern; Evgeny Kissin; Stephen Kovacevich; http://www.campusprogram.com/reference/en/wikipedia/p/pi/pianist.html
Extractions: Main Page See live article Alphabetical index A pianist is a person who plays the piano A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller ensemble , or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists. A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Liszt Frederic Chopin ... Robert Schumann , and Sergei Rachmaninov were all virtuoso pianists. Some pianists have special preferences as to which composer's music they play. Most western forms of music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of forms and styles to choose from, including jazz classical music , and all sorts of popular music Well-known or influential classical pianists: Martha Argerich Claudio Arrau Vladimir Ashkenazy Gina Bachauer Wilhelm Backhaus Daniel Barenboim Simon Barere Bart Berman Boris Berman Idil Biret Jorge Bolet Alfred Brendel Bruno Canino Robert Casadesus Shura Cherkassky Dino Ciani Aldo Ciccolini Van Cliburn Harriet Cohen Jean-Philippe Collard Alfred Cortot Clifford Curzon Bella Davidovich Alicia de Larrocha Vasso Devetsi Peter Donohoe Barry Douglas Hans Eijsackers Vladimir Feltsmann Annie Fischer Edwin Fischer Leon Fleischer Walter Gieseking Emil Gilels Jacob Gimpel Katrine Gislinge Misha Goldstein Richard Goode Glenn Gould Lola Graham Gary Graffman
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