Wilson Hermanto
Conductor
The Indonesian born Wilson Hermanto has been the Principal Guest Conductor of the chamber orchestra “Cameristi della Scala” since 2017. In 2026-27 season he is scheduled to perform with the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Prague Philharmonia, Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala and also to conduct J.S. Bach St. John Passion with the Cameristi della Scala. As the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Vevey Spring Classic together with the German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, the festival enters its 6th year in May 2027.
Since almost a decade of regular collaboration with the Cameristi della Scala, Wilson Hermanto has led the orchestra performing in Italy (including at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano), France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Romania (George Enescu Festival), Turkey and Hong Kong. As guest conductor Wilson Hermanto conducted Leonard Bernstein’s opera “Candide” with the Baltic State Opera in Poland and has also worked with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Argovia Philharmonic, Chilean National Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra and Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra.
In France Wilson Hermanto performed with several of its major orchestras such as the 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 Metz and Orchestre national de Bretagne. Around the globe he has conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Prague Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, NDR Radio Philharmonie Hannover, Ulster Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra and many others.
With a wide repertoire spanning from the Baroque era to the music of our time, Wilson Hermanto has performed many contemporary compositions (including conducting several world premières) and working with composers such as Zygmunt Krauze, Bruno Mantovani, Jörg Widmann, Agata Zubel, Thuridur Jónsdóttir, Helmut Lachenmann, H.K. Gruber, Matteo Franceschini, Enno Poppe, Teoniki Rożynek, Wojciech Błazejczyk and Lowell Liebermann. Among the renowned soloists with whom Wilson Hermanto has worked together include Maxim Vengerov, Lang Lang, Francesco Piemontesi, Daniel Müller-Schott, Gautier Capuçon, David Fray, Veronika Eberle, Simon Trpčeski, Maxim Rysanov, Till Fellner, Alexei Volodin, Carolin Widmann, Nils Mönkemeyer, Kian Soltani, etc…
Wilson Hermanto received a bachelor degree in violin performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore and a master degree in orchestra conducting from the Manhattan School of Music in New York where he studied with the Swedish maestro Sixten Ehrling. As a close mentor during more than a decade, Sir Colin Davis took a keen interest in Wilson Hermanto’s musical development. He was also one of the last students of Carlo Maria Giulini in his conducting class at the Scuola Musica di Fiesole in Italy. In addition, he studied at the Tanglewood Music Center with Seiji Ozawa and Lucerne Festival Academy with Pierre Boulez.
In 2024 Claves Records released a Beethoven-Mozart CD album with Wilson Hermanto and the Cameristi della Scala, followed by a recent release in Spring 2026 of a trumpet concertos CD album by Heinz Karl Gruber, Péter Eötvös, and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, featuring the French trumpeter Clément Saunier and Sinfonia Varsovia under the direction of Wilson Hermanto.
