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 British pianist Freddy Kempf will perform various works by Beethoven, Schumann, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Tchaikovsky. Kempf is one of those rare pianists whose artistic sensibilities and all-encompassing technique seem perfectly at home in the music of such polar opposites as J.S. Bach and Prokofiev, Chopin and Schnittke, Tchaikovsky and Bartók, and many others. His eclectic nature might be attributed to his cosmopolitan background: born in London to a German father and Japanese mother, he lives in Berlin and, besides English, is fluent in Russian, French, and German, and does reasonably well with Japanese, Italian, and Spanish. The chameleonic Kempf also plays the violin and harmonica, but his connection to the piano goes deep: his grandfather was the great German pianist Wilhelm Kempff. Freddy Kempf devotes much of his concert schedule to recitals, but also regularly appears as a soloist and chamber player. He has concertized across the U.K., Europe, Asia, Japan, Australia, and the Americas. He has made numerous recordings, most of them available from the BIS label. In the new century Kempf has regularly toured the globe, often appearing at high-profile events, as with the October 2004 inaugural concert of the Shanghai Concert Hall and his April 2006 and April 2011 solo engagements at Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Kempf's recordings have been streaming out on BIS at the rate of two or three per year. Notable among them is his 2004 Beethoven piano trios, with the Kempf Trio, and 2011 CD of works by J.S. Bach, Rachmaninov, Ravel, and Stravinsky.
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