Stefan Temmingh is a South African recorder player who now lives in Munich.
He comes from a South African-Dutch family of musicians. In 1998, he moved to Munich to take lessons with Markus Zahnhausen. From 1999 he also studied pedagogy and performance practice at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, where he received his diploma in 2003. Afterwards he continued his studies with Michael Schneider at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt.
Temmingh's repertoire includes almost the complete original literature of the Baroque period for recorder. He has been engaged with the Ensemble Phoenix Munich, the Berlin Lautten Compagney, at the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, the Audi Summer Concerts and at the Bavarian State Opera. As a specialist for early music he played together with Thomas Boysen, Sergio Ciomei, Joel Frederiksen, Naoki Kitaya, Margret Köll, Karsten Erik Ose, Maurice Steger and Olga Watts. In addition to appearances in Germany and South Africa, he has performed in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, France, Russia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lebanon.