Torsten Herrmann

Torsten Herrmann (* 1981 in Jülich ) is a German composer .

Life

Torsten Herrmann studied composition with York Höller and piano with Klaus Oldemeyer at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln , composition with Frédéric Durieux , electronic composition with Yan Maresz and orchestration with Marc-André Dalbavie at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and composition with Hanspeter Kyburz and electronic composition with Wolfgang Heiniger at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin . Further studies took him to Paris again, where he attended the IRCAM course in 2015/16 .

The interpreters of his works include the Ensemble Modern , the Ensemble intercontemporain , the Munich Chamber Orchestra , the Ensemble UnitedBerlin, the Ensemble E-Mex, the Zafraan Ensemble and the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart as well as the soloists Guido Schiefen , Hannah Walter, Heike Schuch, Johann Ludwig , Mischa Meyer, Zoé Cartier, Armance Quéro and Violaine Despeyroux.

2016–17 scholarship holder of the Villa Massimo Rome
2016 working grant from the Else Heiliger Fund of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
2015 scholarship from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
2015 scholarship from Künstlerhof Schreyahn
2015 Richard Wagner Scholarship from the Braunschweig Association
2014 scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
2014 scholarship from the Thuringian State Academy in Sondershausen
2012–14 scholarship from the “Akademie Musiktheater heute” of the Deutsche Bank Foundation
2013 finalist in the Queen Elisabeth competition
2012 Franz Liszt Prize of the Weimar University of Music
2012 composition grant from the Berlin Senate
2010 1st prize at the "Freestyle Competition" of the Alvarez Chamber Orchestra London
2010 1st prize at the "Hanns Eisler Competition" Berlin
2009 Award at the “Orchestra Workshop for Composers” with the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra
2006–09 scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
2006 Grant for the 43rd International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt
2004 Scholarship for the 42nd International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt
2001 1st prize in the competition “Young People Composed” in NRW