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Professor Andreas Herrmann was born in 1963 in Munich where his studies at the Academy of Music under Professor Michael Gläser were followed by a number of international conducting seminars and master classes with such renowned choral conductors as Professor Eric Ericson and Professor Fritz Schieri.

Herrmann became Artistic Director of the Munich Philharmonic Choir, the partner choir of Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, in 1996, and since then has taken up the baton on behalf of such eminent conductors as Christian Thielemann, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Mariss Jansons, Krzysztof Penderecki, Fabio Luisi, Ingo Metzmacher, Daniele Gatti, Christopher Hogwood, Pablo Heras-Casado, Ton Koopman, Thomas Hengelbrock and others.

Part of Herrmann's role at the Munich Academy of Music since 1996 has been the teaching of conducting and choral direction, with special emphasis on choral conducting. 2004-05 he became the Acting Director of the Madrigal Choir of the Munich Academy of Music. He also took on ambitious projects, which included concert tours to Italy, TV recordings, world premieres of new music and performances of early music using period instruments. From 1996 to 2006, he directed the Music Academy Choir, during which time he oversaw the production of many large-scale oratorio concerts and performances of operatic and a-cappella works covering a wide range of musical genres. Professional young choirdirectors from all over Europe seek his advice as a teacher with great success, recently in a special propaedeutic workshop about contemporary music for a cappella choir for the Eric Ericson Award in Stockholm in October 2009. In 2010 he held an international masterclass in Russe/Bulgaria with focus on Ockeghem, Josquin, Gabrieli, Bach and Paert.

As a choral and oratorio conductor Herrmann has brought his skills to many other countries, including Austria, France, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Switzerland and the People's Republic of China, and the success he has had in working with a multitude of choirs, orchestras and ensembles has ensured a long, happy and productive collaboration with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.