German–English pianist Nicholas Rimmer is passionately committed to exploring the piano in all its musical contexts, whether as a solo instrument, in a wide range of chamber music settings, accompanying singers, or as a vehicle for improvisation.
He began his musical training as a child at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he studied piano, organ, and conducting as a teenager before going on to read Music at Clare College in Cambridge. While holding an organ scholarship there, he worked with conductors including Ivor Bolton, John Eliot Gardiner, René Jacobs, and John Rutter.
He has performed at many prestigious venues, including Wigmore Hall in London, Gasteig in Munich, Tonhalle Zürich, and the Berlin Philharmonie. As a soloist, he has appeared with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, the CHAARTS Chamber Orchestra, and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
He has held teaching posts in chamber music at conservatoires in Hanover, Frankfurt, and Manchester. Since 2019, he has also been Professor of Piano at the University of Music Freiburg.
Nicholas Rimmer
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Nicholas Rimmer
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