Antony Hermus
Antony Hermus (* 1973 in Oosterhout , Netherlands ) is a Dutch conductor .
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Antony Hermus is the son of a church choir director. He began playing the piano at the age of six, was an altar boy and a member of the Oosterhoutse Nachtegalen children's and youth choir. He later studied business informatics at the Catholic University of Brabant and at the same time at the Fontys Conservatory in Tilburg piano with Jacques de Tiège and conducting with Jac van Steen and Georg Fritzsch .
From 1998 he was an intern at the Theater Hagen , then a répétiteur and Kapellmeister and from 2003 to 2008 General Music Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen . In 2009 he became General Music Director of the Anhalt Theater and Chief Conductor of the Anhalt Philharmonic in Dessau-Roßlau . In 2014 it became known that he would not renew his contract after the 2014/2015 season.
In Dessau he directed the performances of the four parts of Richard Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen from 2012 to 2015, directed by André Bücker . In May 2015 the work was shown in a cyclical performance. In addition to classical works, Antony Hermus conducted new discoveries during his engagements such as Königskinder by Engelbert Humperdinck and dresses make People by Alexander Zemlinsky as well as contemporary works such as Where the Wild Things are by Oliver Knussen , the world premiere of a new version of Helle Nights by Moritz Eggert and the German premiere of Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie . At the end of his tenure in Dessau he was made honorary conductor of the Anhalt Philharmonic.
He was guest conductor at the Komische Oper Berlin , the Opéra National de Paris , the Opera Zuid in Maastricht , the Opéra national du Rhin , the Göteborgsoperan, the Rennes Opera House , the Stuttgart State Theater and the Noord Nederlands Orkest. He conducted the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra , the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig , the WDR Rundfunkorchester Cologne , the London Philharmonia Orchestra , the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra , the Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest , the BBC Philharmonic and other orchestras in Germany, France, Sweden and Ireland.
Awards
- 2002: Scholarship from the Richard Wagner Society
- 2006: Culture Prize of the City of Hagen
- 2015: Honorary conductor of the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau
Discography
- August Klughardt : Symphony No. 5 & Overtures , Anhaltische Philharmonie, cpo, 2013
- Alphons Diepenbrock : Symphonic Seals , Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, cpo, 2016
- Siegmund von Hausegger : Dionysian Fantasy , Bamberg Symphony, cpo, 2017
- The Romantic Violin Concerto, Vol. 22 , violin concertos by Eduard Lassen , Philipp Scharwenka and Rued Langgaard with Linus Roth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra , Hyperion Records, 2019
Web links
- Works by and with Antony Hermus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Antony Hermus website
- Antony Hermus on the website of the Komische Oper Berlin
- Antony Hermus on the website of the Stuttgart Opera
- Antony Hermus on the website of the Philharmonia Orchestra London
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b He is never misled. Ontmoeting met Antony Hermus on cultureeleigenwijs.nl, May 14, 2019
- ↑ Danny Grid: Clef makes you hungry. ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . March 23, 2011
- ↑ a b Andreas Hillger: Antony Hermus - tour guide in the realm of sounds. ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. November 17, 2008
- ↑ Dagmar Röse: All-rounder Antony Hermus goes ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on mdr.de, July 2, 2014
- ↑ The Ring of the Nibelung in the Bauhaus city of Dessau
- ↑ Ernst Krziwanie: Dessau has the greatest. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. April 9, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hermus, Antony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oosterhout , Netherlands |