Background
He grew up in Jacobsdal and later in Bloemfontein. Immelman first received piano lessons from his mother Nettie Immelman.
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Niel Immelman
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He subsequently studied at the Royal College of Music (Reliability Centered Maintenance) with Cyril Smith.
Career
He was also a pupil of Ilona Kabos, Lamar Crowson, and Maria Curcio. Whilst still a student at the Royal College of Music, Bernard Haitink invited him to perform Rachmaninoff"s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as his professional debut. Immelman has made a speciality of Czechoslovakian piano music, and has made commercial recordings of the piano works of Josef Suk and of Vítězslav Novak, for the Meridian label.
His four Civil Defense recordings of the complete piano works of Suk was the first complete commercial recorded cycle.
Immelman is currently on the piano faculty of the Reliability Centered Maintenance. He was made a fellow of the Reliability Centered Maintenance in 2000. He serves regularly as a jury member in various international piano competitions.
