PROFILE
At a young age, the Taiwanese-German pianist Julia Hermanski was discovered as a “rough diamond”. Her path led her to the Hanover University of Music, where she was trained as an early student at the Institute for the Early Intervention of Highly Talented Musicians/IFF, and then to the highly valued music universities in Cologne and Hanns Eisler Berlin. Her most influential mentors include Michael Gees and Prof. Dmitri Bashkirov.
Being awarded the "Virtuoso of the Year 2017" at the International Piano Competition in Munich, she also looks back on television productions with PDF, ARD degeto and Arte, as well as competition successes e.g. at the Classic Vienna International Music Competition in the Vienna Konzerthaus and The North International Music Competition Stockholm.
With her outstanding artistic personality, she enchants and delights audiences at renowned concert halls and international music festivals. These include concerts with the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Toruń Symphony Orchestra and the Luxembourg Philharmonia, as well as podiums at the Bonn Beethoven Festival, the International Weilburger Schlosskonzerte and the Bavarian State Opera.
Her CD debut album with Piano Works of Franz Liszt topped the International Ranking of Classical-Instrumental Music SACDs as #2 out of #100 and was honored by three nominations for the 2021 OPUS KLASSIK Awards:
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1. Solo recording of the year
2. Innovative audio production of the year
3. Young artist of the year
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