Hermes Helfricht Tickets

German conductor, Hermes Helfricht, is a versatile and dynamic young artist with footprints in both symphonic and operatic repertoire. He has collaborated with many European orchestras and was repeatedly entrusted with world premieres. In 2018 he was named the 1st Kapellmeister at Bonn Opera House.

Hermes Helfricht made his conducting debut in 2013 at the Bruckner Orchester Linz (Austria) with an all-Italian program and performed pieces by Rossini, Mascagni, Verdi and Puccini.
In Germany, he has worked with the DSO Berlin, the Bochum Symphoniker, the Staatskapelle Halle, Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt, the Philharmonic Orchestra Heidelberg, the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin, the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic, the Kammerakademie Potsdam and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn. Further engagements were with the Vanemuine Symphony Orchestra (Estonia), the Philharmonic Zielona Gora (Poland) and the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice at the Young Prague Festival (Czech Republic).

Hermes Helfricht has been assistant conductor with the Spanish National Youth Orchestra since 2014, and performed two world premieres, “Maui” by Alejandro Moreno and “La Rutina de lo Invisible” by Alvaro Martinez Leon.
In 2015 he conducted the „Orchester 1770“ at the Musikakademie Rheinsberg and led the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden in a production of Die Fledermaus at the Schlossoper Haldenstein.

In the 2015/16 season, Helfricht served as Kapellmeister at Theater Erfurt and led performances of Carmen, Das Land des Lächelns and Evita. In February 2016 Helfricht has debuted with Eugen Onegin at Theater St. Gallen (Switzerland) and was appointed 1st Kapellmeister. Since then he has conducted Le nozze di Figaro, Fidelio, Nabucco, Tosca, La Bohème and Le Vin herbé.

In the 2017/18 season, Helfricht was invited to conduct symphony concerts with Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra and Magdeburg Philharmonic. Furthermore he appeared with Beethoven Orchestra Bonn and the Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen. The following year he gave debuts with Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra and State Philharmonic Rheinland-Pfalz. Furthermore he conducted the StateYouthOrchestra Schleswig-Holstein and the Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen.

For the season 2018/19 Hermes Helfricht changed as 1st Kapellmeister to Bonn Opera House. There he conducted own productions of Viktor Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Ponchielli’s La Gioconda, Janáček’s The Makropulos Affair as well as performances of Die Zauberflöte, Hänsel und Gretel and Lohengrin. In the 2019/20 season he will lead premieres of Scarrinos Infinito Nero und Brittens Death in Venice. Furthermore he will conduct performances of Le nozze di Figaro, Madama Butterfly and West Side Story.

Upcoming engagements in the 2019/20 season include his debuts with Symphony Orchestra Wuppertal and Elbland Philharmonic Sachsen. Moreover Helfricht returns to Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen.

Born in 1992 in Radebeul near Dresden, Hermes Helfricht began piano lessons at age of five and was regularly awarded prizes at youth music competitions. For nine years he was a member of the famous Kreuzchor Dresden and made guest appearances as a boy soloist in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Komische Oper Berlin. From 2008-2010 he was a choral prefect for the renowned Kreuzkantor Roderich Kreile and in 2010, was awarded the prestigious Rudolf Mauersberger scholarship.
At the University of the Arts in Berlin, he studied orchestral conducting with Lutz Köhler and Steven Sloane and played piano trios and quartets in the Artemis Quartet’s chamber music class. Additionally, he is a sought-after song recital-accompanist and receives valuable support from his mentor Ks. Peter Schreier.
Since 2013, Hermes Helfricht has been a scholarship recipient in the German Music Council’s DIRIGENTENFORUM where he studies with esteemed international conductors.