Freddy Kempf's withdrew from a planned concert on the 24th of May 2023 at the Cadogan Hall.
Freddy Kempf performed on the 15th of July 2018 as part of the BBC Young Musician 40th birthday celebrations at the BBC Proms. Natalie Clein, Nicola Benedetti, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Michael Collins and Martin James Bartlett played as well.
On the 29th of November 2021 at the Cadogan Hall.
His concert on the 23rd of April 2020 at the Cadogan Hall was also cancelled.
Freddy Kempf now teaches.
Mr. Kempf performed Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra being conducted by Yuri Simonov at the Cadogan Hall on the 18th of May 2017.
Freddy Kempf got third prize in the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in 1998, but was “the hero of the competition” according to the Russian press.
His first performance at Carnegie Hall was in 1997.
He won the first English National Mozart Competition in 1987 at the age of ten and became BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1992 playing Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini'.
Freddy Kempf was born in October 1977 in Croydon, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. His concerto debut was in 1985 at the Royal Festival Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major.