MUSIC BY CANDLELIGHT
ROYAL MUSIC

Stefan Temmingh, born in Cape Town, comes from a South African-Dutch family of musicians and now lives in Munich and Freiburg. He received lessons from Markus Zahnhausen and studied with Prof Michael Schneider in Frankfurt. In 2008, he was awarded the City of Munich Scholarship for New Music. He has been a professor at the Freiburg University of Music since autumn 2019.

Stefan Temmingh, honoured with the OPUS Klassik 2022 award for his CD ‘Leipzig 1723’, is one of the world's top recorder players. His debut ‘Corelli à la mode’ broke the boundaries of repertoire and sound. His CDs with Dorothee Mields have won numerous awards and led to him being awarded the ECHO Klassik prize. His Vivaldi CD received the International Classical Music Award, Gramophone's Editor's Choice and the Diapason d'or in 2018. As a specialist in early music, he performs at renowned festivals worldwide and appears as a soloist with various orchestras in Europe, Asia and Africa. He initiates and participates in projects and premieres of new music and is often compared to Frans Brüggen.

Weidanz, winner of the 2000 Bach Prize at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, has performed at international festivals in Europe, New York, Japan and China. She regularly appears as a soloist and continuo player with leading baroque orchestras such as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Concerto Köln. She has worked for many years as an assistant to René Jacobs in international opera productions and has been a professor of harpsichord at the Nuremberg University of Music since the summer semester of 2014.

Admission: 6.30 p.m.