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In 2016 he debuted at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg (Cunning Little Vixen) and at the Gothenburg Opera (Verdi Macbeth), where he returned in Autumn 2017 for a double-bill of Gianni Schicchi and Sieben Todsünden. He has also conducted productions at the Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Stuttgart, Opéra de Rouen, Opéra de Paris studio, and Nederlandse Reisopera. He was Music Director in Dessau from 2009, where he was nominated “Conductor of the Year” by Opernwelt for three years in succession, ending his tenure in summer 2015 with his first Ring cycle and promotion to Honorary Conductor. Before Dessau he had progressed from Repetiteur to Music Director (aged 29) in Hagen, winning many awards for his work there.
Symphonic highlights of spring 2018 include his first visit to the Vienna Musikverein conducting the Tonkuenstlerorchester, his Melbourne Symphony debut, a televised concert with the Rotterdam Philharmonic. He will conduct Bruckner 6 with the Residentie Orkest and the Seoul Philharmonic, Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances with the Ulster Orchestra, and returns to the Antwerp Symphony for a Symphonic Cinema production of Stravinsky’s Firebird. Mahler loomed large this past autumn, when he conducted Symphony no. 5 with Duisburg Philharmoniker and no. 6 with the North Netherlands Orchestra, as well as Shostakovich 8 broadcast live from Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht. In the summer he conducted the closing concert of the Robeco Festival at the Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.
His symphonic repertoire has at its heart the great Romantic symphonies and 20th century masterworks, but he also has a talent for contemporary music, having conducted several times in the Philharmonia’s Music of Today series, led the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra at the Swedish Composer Festival 2013 at the Stockholm Konserthuset featuring Unsuk Chin, and conducted the MDR Symphony in the IMPULS festival for modern music.
In 2017 CPO released his much-praised recording with the Bamberg Symphony of tone poems by the German Romantic composer Siegmund von Hausegger, following their Diepenbrock recording together. His discography on the same label includes works by Wagenaar, Klughardt, and Auber’s opera La Muette de Portici. Whilst in Hagen he recorded Mahler 1 and a symphonic version of Tristan und Isolde.
Born in Holland, Antony Hermus started playing the piano at the age of six. He studied piano with Jacques de Tiège at the Tilburg Music Conservatory and conducting with Jac van Steen and Georg Fritzsch.
2017/18 season / 478 words. Not to be altered without permission.