Hermann Bäumer

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Hermann Bäumer (born January 28, 1965 in Bielefeld ) is a German conductor .

Life

Bäumer began playing the piano at the age of six. Later he also received cello and trombone lessons and then began to study school music in Detmold in 1985, majoring in trombone with Martin Borowski. He received his first orchestral position in 1986 when he became bass trombonist with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra until 1992. In 1992 he moved to the position of trombone player (2nd / 3rd trombone) with the Berlin Philharmonic , with whose brass ensemble he had a longstanding collaboration. Hermann Bäumer was also on the podium with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Oslo Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and was a guest at the Rheingau Music Festival and the Heidelberg Spring .

In addition, Bäumer does youth work through cooperation with the state youth orchestras of North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg , the Federal Youth Orchestra and the Märkisches Youth Symphony Orchestra, of which he was chief conductor from 1999 to 2003. Bäumer was general music director in Osnabrück from 2004 to 2012 and gives guest conductors at home and abroad. In 2006 he conducted Alex Nowitz's Bestmannoper at its world premiere in Osnabrück , as did Hans Werner Henze's Wundertheater in the 2004/05 season .

In 2007 Bäumer recorded Enna's Heiße Liebe for cpo with the NDR Radiophilharmonie and Jón Leifs Edda I with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra for BIS. Other recordings include the first recording by Henze's Wundertheater and the symphonies No. 1 and 2 by Karl Höller with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra .

In 2007, Bäumer conducted the premieres of Puccini's Turandot , Poulenc's Conversations of the Carmelites and the world premiere of André Werner's Lavinia A. , an opera based on Shakespeare, in Osnabrück . The concert programs include works by Mahler, Mendelssohn and Bruckner as well as music by Tan Dun, Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Dutilleux.

From the 2011/2012 season, Bäumer will be general music director at the Mainz State Theater . Since 2016 he has been Conductor in Residence of the Hof Symphony Orchestra .

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SURNAME Bäumer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld