Wilson Hermanto

Praised for his deep musicianship, natural authority, exuberant energy and elegance, Wilson Hermanto is the Principal Guest Conductor of the chamber orchestra Cameristi della Scala since 2017. In 2024-25 season Mr. Hermanto makes his debut at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with the Wiener Kammerorchester as well as a return engagement with the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala Orchestra. With the Sinfonia Varsovia and the French trumpetist Clément Saunier, a CD recording project of music by Eötvös, H.K Gruber and B.A Zimmermann will be done with Wilson Hermanto conducting. Together with the Cameristi della Scala, they will be performing in Italy, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Their CD album consisting of Beethoven Symphony No. 2 and Mozart “Haffner” Symphony is released in Autumn 2024 under Claves Records.

Last season (2023-24), Wilson Hermanto made a welcome return to the prestigious Enescu Festival with the Cameristi della Scala and took the orchestra to France and Switzerland with soloists Simon Trpčeski, Daniel Müller-Schott, Pierre Génisson and Daniel Ciobanu. In addition Mr. Hermanto made return engagements with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra to close the 2023 Warsaw Autumn Festival and the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra in Wrocław. Together with Daniel Müller-Schott, Wilson Hermanto is the Co-Artistic Director of the Vevey Spring Classic music festival in Switzerland since 2022.

As a guest conductor, in the recent past Mr. Hermanto conducted Leonard Bernstein “Candide” with the Baltic Opera in Poland and worked with the Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre national de Metz, George Enescu Philharmonic, Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, Argovia Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile, Mariinsky Orchestra, Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, Accademia del Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Schweizer Jugend Sinfonie Orchester. With the Cameristi della Scala, in addition to their performances in Italy, including at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Mr. Hermanto and the orchestra gave performances in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Romania and Turkey.

Wilson Hermanto performs regularly in France where he conducted various important French orchestras such as Orchestre national de Lyon, Orchestre philharmonique de radio France, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Orchestre national d’Île de France, Orchestre national de Bretagne, etc. Around the globe Mr. Hermanto has worked with the Cleveland Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Prague Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne, NDR Radio Philharmonie Hannover, Ulster Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de chambre de Genève, Ensemble Contrechamps, etc.

With a large repertoire encompassing the Baroque period until the music of our time, Wilson Hermanto conducted and worked with many renowned contemporary composers such as Zygmunt Krauze, Bruno Mantovani, Jörg Widmann, Agata Zubel, Thuridur Jónsdóttir, Helmut Lachenmann, Eric Montalbetti, Giovanni Sollima, Magdalena Długosz, H.K. Gruber, Matteo Franceschini, Enno Poppe, Teoniki Rożynek, Wojciech Błazejczyk and Lowell Liebermann. Various soloists with whom Mr. Hermanto has worked together include Maxim Vengerov, Lang Lang, Francesco Piemontesi, Gautier Capuçon, David Fray, Till Fellner, Alexei Volodin, Sergei Babayan, Carolin Widmann, Alina Pogostkina, Nils Mönkemeyer, Kian Soltani, Richard Galliano, Radek Baborák and the Trio Wanderer.

Born in Indonesia of Chinese descent and a long time Swiss resident, Wilson Hermanto graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music majoring in violin and obtained the conducting degree from the Manhattan School of Music studying with the late Swedish Maestro, Sixten Ehrling. Sir Colin Davis became a close mentor who took personal interest in shaping Mr. Hermanto’s conducting skills. Mr. Hermanto also studied conducting with Carlo Maria Giulini at Scuola Musica di Fiesole in Italy and was a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center working with Seiji Ozawa and a Conducting Fellow at the Lucerne Festival Academy under the tutelage of Pierre Boulez.