Thomas Flessenkaemper
Thomas Flessenkaemper (; July 1, 1981 in Leverkusen) is a German classical composer and pianist. Life. Thomas Flessenkaemper is a graduate of the conservatories in Frankfurt a. M. and Karlsruhe. As part of his dissertation, he dealt with the Historically informed performance of piano playing in the 19th century. After graduating, he began teaching répétition and piano at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou, China. His preference for the Russian piano music of the "Fin de Siècle" characterises his repertoire; in particular Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Scriabin and Nikolai Medtner. Flessenkaemper has performed as a soloist, chamber music partner  and song accompanist in Germany, Great Britain and China. He was a jury member at the International Irmler Piano Competition initiated by piano-manufacturing company Bluthner and the Franz Schubert Competition in China. Flessenkaemper's compositional output embraces choral, instrumental, vocal and chamber music works. Some of his choral works have been published by Verlag Singende Gemeinde. His collaboration with the Belgian harpist Paola Chatelle led to a series of compositions for the chromatic harp of the French harp manufacturer Pleyel.