Andrys' Freddy Kempf On CD Page Provides excerpts from reviews of CDs by the British pianist in which he performs works by Schumann and Rachmaninov. or, go to Neil Tingley's freddy kempf Web Site. I've made these pages as an amateur pianist and enthusiast, who http://www.andrys.com/freddyk.html
Freddy Kempf - Pianist - Biography And Concert Schedule the most soughtafter young pianists in the world, freddy kempf was born for soloand concerto appearances prompted the headline Young pianist conquers Moscow http://www.thump.org/freddy/background.htm
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.
Artists-e.com - Pianist - Freddy Kempf freddy kempf wurde 1977 in London geboren. Im Alter von 4 Jahren begann er Klavier zu spielen. Das erste Aufsehen erregte er, als er mit 8 Jahren Mozarts Piano Konzert K. 414 mit dem Royal Philharmonic Orchestra spielte. http://www.artists-e.com/d/solisten/freddy_kempf/bio.html
Extractions: Als Freddy Kempf am internationalen Tchaikovsky Piano Wettbewerb in Moskau 1998 nur den dritten Platz belegte, protestierte das Publikum lautstark; die russische Presse nannte ihn "den wahren Helden des Wettbewerbs". Seine Popularität in Russland zeigte sich auch durch ausverkaufte Konzerte und unzählige Wiederholungen seines legendären Auftrittes im Fernsehen. Freddy Kempf gab Konzerte in England, Europa, den USA und Japan, welche regelmässig von BBC im Fernsehen ausgestrahlt wurden. Seine wichtigsten Konzerte gab er in Londons "Wigmore Hall", am Konservatorium in Mailand, am "Cheltenham Festival", am "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, er eröffnete die Konzertreihe "Young Masters" in der Musikhalle von Hamburg und tourte durch Japan, wo er unter anderem auch in der "Suntory Hall" auftrat.
Extractions: Home Sokolov Prokofiev Gould ... Scotland 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
Extractions: Home Sokolov Prokofiev Gould ... Scotland 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
Freddy Kempf - Tchaikovsky Competition Impact The British pianist freddy kempf came to prominence here last summer at the InternationalTchaikovsky Competition, perhaps the world's best known musical http://www.andrys.com/ftchai.html
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Andrys' Freddy Kempf Schumann-CD Page freddy kempf is an extraordinarily sensitive and virtuosic pianist who plays a wonderful Schumann recital Carnaval, http://www.andrys.com/freddyk1.html
Extractions: Two pillars of Schumann's keyboard music separated by a pair of his essential shorter works stunningly played by an artist still new on the international scene make this a release that echoes the composer's own famous proclamation: "Hats off!" Kempf plays the familiar Carnaval with joyous élan; he understands the perfection of each of these mini-Dionysian dithyrambs and weaves them together into a magnificently coherent tapestry. The fun with which he joins the Davidites in "socking it" to the Philistine establishment, is in itself sufficient reason to make the disc worth owning. He is equally adept in the large-scale Humoresque, making - as Carl Kossmaly puts it - "the great variety of content and form, the continual and quick ... succession of the most varied images, imaginary ideas and sentiments, fantastic and dream-like phenomena swell and fade into one another ... from beginning to end". Kempf, who was born in London in 1977 and who counts Vladimir Ashkenazy, Kurt Sanderling, and Isidore Cohen among his coaches, is a major young sensation of the keyboard in Europe...
ManchesterOnline - Entertainment - Music - Reviews Thackeray pianist freddy kempf certainly lived up to his reputation as an internationalpianist in a midday concert of music composed by Schubert and Ravel. http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/entertainment/music/livereviews/stories/Detail
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Kempf, Freddy Biography. freddy kempf. pianist. UK. Born 1977. freddy kempf was born in London in 1977. http://www.artsworld.com/music-dance/biographies/j-l/kempf%2C-freddy.html
ManchesterOnline - Entertainment - Music - Classical And Opera Talented young pianist Freddie kempf plays Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy and to ProkofievContemporary feel to February at RNCM freddy kempf @ Bridgewater Hall http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/entertainment/music/classicalandopera/stories/
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.
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Guardian | Freddy Kempf Wigmore Hall, London Tuesday January 9, 2001 Liszt's Etudes d'exécution transcendante are as daunting as their title suggests. any pianist would be taking a more or less calculated risk by choosing to perform these studies, and freddy kempf is no http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0%2C3858%2C4114409%2C00.html
Extractions: The Guardian Striding on to the platform, Kempf launched into the first, decisive major chord of the Preludio almost before the audience had had a chance to settle down. A similarly unapologetic, almost confrontational approach pervaded most of the studies - Kempf tackled them head-on to the extent that he seemed to be fighting against the thick swathes of notes rather than being the medium through which they were transmitted to the audience. Nor did he always come out clearly on top in this battle. There were some wrong or missed notes, and at times Kempf found it difficult to project Liszt's well-hidden melodies smoothly from within these thickly written scores. Indeed, he often sought refuge in the sheer volume of the noise he was producing. His triple fortissimos were certainly powerful - the Wigmore Hall piano has rarely had that much sound drawn from it - but, with every climax pushed as far as it would go, some lost their impact and began to seem unrelenting rather than momentous. Still, a spirit of heroism prevailed, never more so than in the fourth study, Mazeppa - a lengthy, pictorial episode which sends both of the pianist's hands careering wildly up and down the keyboard, and which Kempf dispatched with bravado. It was in the more relaxed studies that Kempf's considerable musicianship really had a chance to shine through. The melody of the third, Paysage, was picked out beautifully from the inner lines, and the fifth, Feux-follets, was offered up with graceful delicacy. The ninth, Ricordanza, was an oasis of calm, played with wistful tenderness.
Top Pianists freddy kempf (England, b1977) Praised as a pianist in the mould of John Ogdon,this young British pianist enjoys unprecedented popularity with Russian http://www.artsworld.com/music-dance/news/top-pianists.html
Extractions: A remarkable pianist by any standards, Arcadi Volodos didn't begin serious study of the piano until he was 16, but caused much attention with his sensational debut in 1996 - a recording of piano transcriptions of music of Bach, Bizet, Liszt, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. Over the last years he has risen from relative anonymity to conquer the major concert halls of Europe. He has been hailed by critics as 'a genius of the piano' whose performances as recitalist, concerto soloist and recording artist are noted for coupling breathtaking technical mastery with profound and eloquent musicality.
Guardian | Freddy Kempf Almost any pianist would be taking a more or less calculated risk by choosingto perform these studies, and freddy kempf is no exception. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4114409,00.html
Extractions: The Guardian Striding on to the platform, Kempf launched into the first, decisive major chord of the Preludio almost before the audience had had a chance to settle down. A similarly unapologetic, almost confrontational approach pervaded most of the studies - Kempf tackled them head-on to the extent that he seemed to be fighting against the thick swathes of notes rather than being the medium through which they were transmitted to the audience. Nor did he always come out clearly on top in this battle. There were some wrong or missed notes, and at times Kempf found it difficult to project Liszt's well-hidden melodies smoothly from within these thickly written scores. Indeed, he often sought refuge in the sheer volume of the noise he was producing. His triple fortissimos were certainly powerful - the Wigmore Hall piano has rarely had that much sound drawn from it - but, with every climax pushed as far as it would go, some lost their impact and began to seem unrelenting rather than momentous. Still, a spirit of heroism prevailed, never more so than in the fourth study, Mazeppa - a lengthy, pictorial episode which sends both of the pianist's hands careering wildly up and down the keyboard, and which Kempf dispatched with bravado. It was in the more relaxed studies that Kempf's considerable musicianship really had a chance to shine through. The melody of the third, Paysage, was picked out beautifully from the inner lines, and the fifth, Feux-follets, was offered up with graceful delicacy. The ninth, Ricordanza, was an oasis of calm, played with wistful tenderness.
Guardian Unlimited freddy kempf is a truly remarkable player, and piano kempf launched expansively intothese, capturing the differing the music was leading the pianist and might http://www.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,3604,124201,00.html
Freddy Kempf In Interview With Marc Bridle Meeting freddy kempf can be a humbling experience. Not yet 23, he is alreadywell on his way to becoming a pianist of considerable greatness (his new http://www.musicweb.uk.net/performers/kempf.html
Extractions: This leads us onto contemporary music. Kempf would love to play more of this, but is both aware of his age and what the markets need to achieve sales. "It is a case of what is in demand. A lot of promoters, even if you offer Prokofiev - I'm getting feedback saying 'can you change that for something more popular'- don't want this. At my age I can't veto everyone, I have to fit in with what others want. You'd probably be surprised ( I'm not, unfortunately ) at how conservative people's tastes are, especially when it comes to recording. People say, well Rachmaninov sells so I just have to fit in with the markets. I don't really know that many twentieth century works, but I'd be interested to see what becomes great in the future". Although he likes the works of the Second Viennese School, he again feels unable to record Berg or Webern at present, but hopes at least one of his future BIS discs might be of Bartok or Debussy. He continues, "It's sort of in-between. Playing for a symphony orchestra you have so many people on a stage and you're bonding with a conductor and the orchestral players. Sometimes there is so much going on it's not easy to get agreement and inspiration from each other. With chamber music you have two or three people you are working very closely with - when you are accompanying them you can almost sit back like a member of the audience and appreciate what they're doing and when you're playing you can feel them responding to you. For me its one of the most fulfilling mediums to play in. Especially with the piano trio you can be as selfish as you want with each instrument treated as a solo."
Extractions: This sold out afternoon recital, showing that Freddy Kempf is now a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall audiences, proved an interesting test of both Kempfs physical stamina and his ability to tackle some of the supreme Everests of the solo piano repertoire. It was not all a success, Im afraid stretching from Bach, which displayed both a poverty of imagination and a fierce disregard for the music, to a mercurial and quite overwhelming performance of Chopins Four Ballades . Sandwiched between these two extremes was a reading of Schuberts great A major Sonata which at times touched the sublime, almost as if the hand of the composer were resting on the pianists young shoulders guiding him through this turbulent and emotional work. Kempf may grow into Bach or he might not. This performance of the
Royal Festival Hall Daniele Gatti conducts Beethoven's Symphony No.6 ('Pastoral') and Piano ConcertoNo.1, with pianist freddy kempf. 4, with pianist freddy kempf. http://www.sbc.org.uk/main/series/79.html?section=classical&file=index
