Background
Kämmerling was born in Dessau and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Leipzig with Anton Rohden and Hugo Steurer.
music educator university professor
Kämmerling was born in Dessau and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Leipzig with Anton Rohden and Hugo Steurer.
Besides teaching as a professor at the Mozarteum and in Hannover, he has been a guest professor at the university of music in Zagreb since 2004 and a teacher of master classes in Europe, the United States and Asia. Among his students are Valentina Babor, Thomas Duis, Severin von Eckardstein, Henriette Gaertner, Bernd Goetzke, Michail Lifits, Philippe Giusiano, Peter Ovtcharov, Oliver Kern, Igor Levit, Herbert Schuch, Márton Illés, Yu Kosuge, Matthew Odell, Alice Sara Ott, Aaron Pilsan, Ragna Schirmer and Lars Vogt. He was particularly active in the early training of highly gifted students at the "Institut zur Früh-Förderung Hochbegabter" at the Hochschule in Hannover.
He served as a vice president of the university for six years.
He has served on the jury of international piano competitions such as The Leeds, the Arthur Rubinstein Competitions in Tel Aviv and in Dresden, and the International Chopin Piano Competition.
Kämmerling received the prize Niedersächsischer Staatspreis of Lower Saxony in 1985. Since 1999 he was an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2000 he was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria. He was an honorary member of Deutscher Musikrat, the German Music Council, a member of the International Music Council, since 2005.
He has been a member of the German Academic Exchange Service, the Deutsche Studienstiftung, and a member of the "Instituts für Begabungsforschung in der Musik" (Institute for the research of musical talent) at the University of Paderborn.
