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Nicholas Rimmer

Pianist Nicholas Rimmer is an unusually versatile figure whose activities encompass various kinds of collaboration in addition to solo performance. He has performed chamber music with various major internationally prominent musicians. Rimmer was born in 1981 in Wigan, England, between Manchester and Liverpool. His family background is English and German, and his professional career has been divided between those two countries. Rimmer was musical from childhood and attended junior classes at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, studying piano, composition, harmony, and conducting. He went on to study musicology at Clare College, Cambridge, receiving his degree in 2000. There, he also served as organist for the Clare College Choir, touring internationally with the group. He made his recording debut on the choir's 2003 recording of John Rutter's Requiem on the Naxos label. In the mid-2000s, Rimmer decided to further his education, studying the song repertory intensively and traveling to Germany for piano classes with Christopher Oakden at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover. He also studied with major song accompanists, including Roger Vignoles, Malcolm Martineau, and Justus Zeyen. First prizes at the Birmingham Accompanist of the Year competition in England in 2005 and the German Music Competition the following year raised his profile. Rimmer has performed and recorded regularly with violist Nils Mönkemeyer, issuing the album Ohne Worte with him on Sony Classical in 2009. He has accompanied such major figures as violinist Tianwa Yang and cellist Gabriel Schwabe, recording with both; his recordings with Yang of the complete music for violin and piano of Wolfgang Rihm earned a Diapason d'Or award in France. Rimmer has co-founded three chamber groups of his own, the Leibniz Trio, Trio Gaspard, and the Trio Belli-Fischer-Rimmer. He has appeared at such top halls as Wigmore Hall in London, the Gasteig in Munich, the Tonhalle Zürich, and the Berlin Philharmonie, and he toured the U.S. with Trio Gaspard. With percussionist Johannes Fischer, he has performed several silent film scores. Rimmer also has an interest in historical performance, and in 2020, he released a solo fortepiano recording on Naxos of unusual piano music by Muzio Clementi. In 2023, again on Naxos, he backed Yang on a recording of four violin sonatas by George Antheil.
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