Nicholas Rimmer

Nicholas Rimmer won the German Music Competition as a piano accompanist in 2006 and again in 2010 as a member of the Leibniz Trio. Since 2007 he has played regularly with Nils Mönkemeyer; the duo’s first CD for Sony, Without Words, received an ECHO-Klassik Award in 2009. As a song accompanist Nicholas Rimmer was a prizewinner at the International Schubert Competition in Dortmund and he regularly partners singers including Ronan Collett, Simon Bode and Sylvia Schwartz in recital. He has commissioned and given premières of works by Mike Svoboda, Joseph Finlay, Friedemann A. Treiber and Johannes Fischer, amongst others. Nicholas Rimmer has recorded for Sony, Genuin, cpo and other labels and has performed in many live and studio broadcasts for German Radio and BBC Radio 3. In January 2011 his début solo CD Acht Sauschneider and other improvisations appeared on the MVH-Music label and received glowing reviews. In December 2011 he was nominated by Fonoforum magazine as one of the “Rising stars of the year.” Nicholas Rimmer currently teaches chamber music and piano at the Hanover University of Music and Drama.

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