Timo Jouko Herrmann

Timo Jouko Herrmann (born September 22, 1978 in Heidelberg ) is a German composer , musicologist and conductor .

Life

Herrmann studied composition with Ulrich Leyendecker at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Mannheim . He received further suggestions during his student days in workshops and courses from Hermann Schäfer , Krzysztof Meyer , Detlev Glanert , Roberto Doati and Wladimir Sagorzew .

His compositions were heard at numerous festivals (including the Salzburg Festival with bassoonist David Petersen ), on the radio (SWR2, Deutschlandradio Kultur, MDR Figaro) and were played by musicians such as the bass baritone Falk Struckmann , the soprano Sonja Mühleck , the bass clarinetist Volker Hemken, the saxophonist Dieter Kraus , the flautist Carin Levine , the pianist Stephan Rahn and the Sonic.art saxophone quartet . Several of his musical theater works were staged for the first time at the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg , including the satirical chamber opera Unreine Tragödien und Lepid Dramatists in 2004 and his compositional contributions to the interdisciplinary project Das neue Wunderhorn under the direction of Cornelius Meister in 2007 . On behalf of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Herrmann wrote several works and arrangements, most recently a series of fables based on Jean de La Fontaine and the scenic Richard Strauss project When the Moon Rises, You Learn to Fly , directed by Philipp J. Neumann . In the 2016/17 season, the Dortmund Opera premiered its chamber opera Hamlet - To be or not to be, directed by Ronny Jakubaschk . The orchestrations of Frédéric Chopin's Allegro de concert op. 46 and Bolero op. 19, created at the suggestion of the pianist Martin Stadtfeld , were praised by the public and the press as "an enrichment of the relevant literature" when they were first performed in March 2017 . Herrmann's compositions appear in print with Verlag Neue Musik and Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag .

Parallel to his artistic activity, Herrmann received his doctorate in 2015 with Hermann Jung on Antonio Salieri and his German-language works for music theater. He gained international fame as a musicologist at the beginning of 2016 through the rediscovery of the lost joy song Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia , set to music jointly by Mozart and Salieri . On the occasion of the Spanish premiere of the work on September 1, 2016, Herrmann was honored in Valladolid with the unveiling of a plaque on the main portal of the Real Monasterio de San Joaquín y Santa Ana .

In addition to his work as a composer and musicologist, Herrmann is also active as a violinist and ensemble leader; as a guest conductor, he regularly leads the Mannheim Mozart Orchestra and the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra . Since 2009 Herrmann has been the artistic director of the “Walldorfer Musiktage” festival in his hometown of Walldorf (Baden) .

Awards and grants (selection)

• Composition Prize from SAP AG and the City of Walldorf (2001)
• Scholarship from the Wilhelm Müller Foundation Mannheim (2001)
• Composition Prize "Goethe vs. Schiller "of the Goethe-Institut Heidelberg-Mannheim (2005)
• Graun Brothers Prize (2005)
• Selection of the "Berlin Opera Prize" (2006)
• Scholarship from the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Association (2006–2010)
• Network “Young Ears” Prize for “ Das Neue Wunderhorn ” (2007)
• Selection of "Soli fan tutti" by the Hessian State Theater Darmstadt (2011)
• Honorary member of the Asociación Cultural Antonio Salieri (2016)

Works (selection)

• Times like pearls for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, horn, violin and violoncello (2001)
• Tears in severe sickness for soprano, cor anglais , violin and piano (2002)
• Andraitx - Pomegranate Flowers for baritone, piano, string quartet and double bass (2003/2010)
• Impure tragedies and leper dramatists - satirical chamber opera based on Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (2003/04)
• With human and angel tongues for soprano, baritone, mixed choir and large orchestra (2004)
• Leicester monologue for narrator, narrator, harpsichord, piano, violin, violoncello and percussion (2005)
• Schwanengesang - music-dramatic etude in one act after Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (2006)
• Chiasmus & Oxymoron - Two rhetorical figures for large orchestra (2007)
• L'ombre de Dinorah for bass clarinet and large orchestra (2008)
• Morphine for soprano / alto saxophone and large orchestra (2009)
• Skiatography for saxophone quartet (2009)
• Jakobs Kampf am Jabbok for mezzo-soprano, violoncello and organ (2009/10)
• Sonatina for guitar and harp (2009/10)
• Tempus fugit for chorded violin and violoncello (2010)
• The 32nd Psalm for baritone and piano quartet (2011)
• Narkissos for large orchestra (2012)
• Penthos for alto flute, violin, violoncello and piano (2013)
• Fabulous World - Five Fables after Jean de La Fontaine for speaker, flute (also piccolo and alto flute), cor anglais (also oboe), bass clarinet (also basset horn), cello and double bass (2014/15)
• Three pieces for bass clarinet solo (2014/2015/2016)
• ... sur un objet trouvé - Caprice No. 1 for viola and bass clarinet (2015)
• Nature morte - Still life with ginkgo leaf - Caprice No. 2 for viola and bass clarinet (2015)
• La lira d'Orfeo for guitar solo (2015/16)
• Concertino notturno for flute, horn and orchestra (2016)
• Hamlet - To be or not to be - Chamber opera based on a text by André Meyer and Kirstin Howein based on William Shakespeare (2016)
• Five intermèdes to Roland Dubillard's play Madame fait ce qu'elle dit for double bass and piano (2017)
• Fama for speaker and orchestra based on a text from Ovid's Metamorphoses (2018)

Publications (selection)

• Sonatina for guitar and harp (Cantate Musicaphon)
• Sonatina for guitar and harp (Verlag Neue Musik)
• Three miniatures for three guitars (Verlag Neue Musik)
• La Lira d'Orfeo for guitar solo (Cantate Musicaphon)
• La Lira d'Orfeo for guitar solo (Verlag Neue Musik)
• Three pieces for bass clarinet solo (Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag)
• Andraitx - Pomegranate Flowers (Darling Publications)
• Five intermèdes for double bass and piano (Farelive)
• Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia . First edition (Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag)
• Antonio Salieri and his German-language works for music theater (Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag)
• Ulrich Leyendecker's guitar works , in: Guitar News - Issue 02/2010, 2010.
• Late Romanticism, Orientalism and Modernism - reflections on the musical language of the opera "Schahrazade" by Bernhard Sekles , in: mr-Mitteilungen No. 82, 2013.
• Antonio Salieri - A Biography (Morio Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-945424-70-4 )
• Salieri - strictly private (Hänssler Classic)

Web links

• Website of the composer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Project description on the website of the Philharmonic Orchestra Heidelberg ( memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Project description on p. 15 in the program brochure of the series IMPULS of the Gewandhaus
3. ↑ Description of the work and press reviews on the Dortmund Opera website
4. ^ Review in Mannheimer Morgen on March 13, 2017
5. ↑ Author page on the website of the Neue Musik Verlag
6. ↑ Report on the website of the International Mozarteum Foundation ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Report in the Spanish newspaper El Norte de Castilla about the event
8. ↑ List of guest conductors on the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra's website
9. ↑ Internet presence of the festival "Walldorfer Musiktage"
10. ^ Spanish-language report on the website of the Asociación Cultural Antonio Salieri about the appointment