Vita Prof. Andreas Herrmann
Professor Andreas Herrmann was born in 1963 in Munich where his
studies at the Academy of Music under Professor Michael Gläser were
followed by a number of international conducting seminars and master
classes with such renowned choral conductors as Professor Eric Ericson
and Professor Fritz Schieri.
Having already been appointed Choral Director of the Munich
Philharmonic Orchestra, Herrmann became Artistic Director of the Munich
Philharmonic Choir in 1996, and since then has taken up the baton on
behalf of such eminent conductors as Christian Thielemann, Zubin
Mehta, James Levine, Mariss Jansons, Krzysztof Penderecki, Fabio
Luisi, Ingo Metzmacher, Peter Schreier, Daniele Gatti and Frans
Brüggen.
Part of Herrmann's role at the Munich Academy of Music since 1996 has
been the teaching of conducting and choral direction, with special
emphasis on choral conducting, composition, oral training, music
theory, and school and church music. In 1998-99 and 2001-02 he was
Professor of Protestant Church Music and Choral Conducting, and in
2004-05 he became the Acting Director of the Madrigal Choir of the
Munich Academy of Music. He also took on ambitious projects, which
included concert tours to Italy, TV recordings, world premieres of new
music and performances of early music using period instruments. From
1996 to 2006, he directed the Music Academy Choir, during which time
he oversaw the production of many large-scale oratorio concerts and
performances of operatic and a-cappella works covering a wide range of
musical genres.
As a choral and oratorio conductor Herrmann has brought his skills to
many other countries, including Austria, France, Italy, Hungary,
Bulgaria, Switzerland and the People's Republic of China, and the
success he has had in working with a multitude of choirs, orchestras
and ensembles has ensured a long, happy and productive collaboration
with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.
