Cornelia Herrmann

{{Short description|Austrian musician (born 1977)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = | caption = | name = Cornelia Hermann | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1977}} | birth_place = Salzburg, Austria | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = ClassicalPianist }}

'''Cornelia Herrmann''' (born in 1977) is an Austrian pianist.

==Life and career== Born in Salzburg, Herrmann comes from a Salzburg family of musicians. At the age of eight, she was admitted to the Mozarteum University Salzburg in the class of Anton Czjzek. Later she studied with {{ill|Rohmann Imre|hu}} in Salzburg and Noel Flores at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She received regular lessons from Ferenc Rados in Budapest and other coaching from Alexander Lonquich, Murray Perahia, András Schiff and Alfred Brendel. In 1996, Herrmann was the youngest finalist and winner of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig and in 1999 she won the special prize of the {{Ill|Internationaler Mozartwettbewerb Salzburg|de}}. In 2002, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/archivdetail?programid=966&id=0&sid=2 |title=Salzburger Festspiele Archivdetail |website=Salzburg Festival|access-date=12 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117141212/http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/archivdetail?programid=966&id=0&sid=2 |archive-date=17 January 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and in 2003 conducted Mozart's recitative and rondo "Ch'io mi scordi di te?" for soprano with piano obbligato and orchestra with Elīna Garanča, Marcello Viotti and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mozarteum.at/?id=242&range=Chronologisch&sub=&seite=27 |title=Chronologisch |work=Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg |access-date=12 April 2019}}</ref>

Herrmann performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, the MDR Sinfonieorchester, the Israel Chamber Orchestra and worked with the conductors Sir Roger Norrington, Manfred Honeck, Hubert Soudant, Sir Neville Marriner, James Judd, Pinchas Steinberg, Fabio Luisi, Lawrence Renes, Stefan Sanderling. She was a guest at festivals such as Styriarte, Grafenegg Festival, MDR Musiksommer, {{Ill|Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|de}}, the Pacific Music Festival and played with Christian Altenburger, Mirijam Contzen, Sergey Malov, Patrick Demenga, {{ill|Quirine Viersen|de}}, the Gewandhaus Quartet of Leipzig.

Herrmann lives in Vienna.<ref name=Lagler>{{Cite news|title=Ein Festival als Lebenstraum|author=Claudia Lagler|date=16 January 2019|newspaper=Die Presse|url=https://www.diepresse.com/5024250/ein-festival-als-lebenstraum|access-date=22 February 2024}}</ref>

==Initiatives== She helped to create numerous "Word and Sound" projects with Cornelia Froboess (George Sand & Frédéric Chopin)<ref>{{Cite news|title=Unglert trifft die Froboess|newspaper=Augsburger Allgemeine|url=http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/neu-ulm/Unglert-trifft-die-Froboess-id5329546.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117141218/http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/neu-ulm/Unglert-trifft-die-Froboess-id5329546.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 January 2017|access-date=12 April 2019}}</ref> Heinrich Heine & Robert Schumann, and Peter Simonischek (Thomas Bernhard: 'Meine Preise',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Konzert am Vormittag|publisher=Ö1|url=http://oe1.orf.at/programm/363200|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310155326/http://oe1.orf.at/programm/363200|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2014|access-date=12 April 2019}}</ref> Cécile and Felix Mendelssohn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2008/0305/005.html|title=Archivmeldung: Karner & Simonischek: Lieder und Worte im Theater an der Wien|publisher=City of Vienna|access-date=12 April 2019|archive-date=17 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117141223/https://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2008/0305/005.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In May 2014, Herrmann started her own chamber music festival "Musiktage Hundsmarktmühle"<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/musiktagehundsmarktmuehle/ "Musiktage Hundsmarktmühle"]</ref> at Lake Fuschl in Salzburg. The chamber music concerts take place in the hayloft of the 16th century Hundsmarktmühle. The music days are now held at the end of June.<ref name=Lagler />

==Discography== * Salut d'amour – Victor, VICC-60442 (2005) * Schumann: ''Fantasiestücke, Op. 12'' & Arabeske Op. 18 – Victor, VICC-60503 (2006) * J. S. Bach: French Suites No. 1, No. 2, No. 5 & No. 6 – Camerata Tokyo, CMCD-25038 (2013) * J. S. Bach: French Suites No. 3, No. 4 & Overture in the "French Style" - Camerata Tokyo, CMCD-25040 (2014) * J. S. Bach: ''Italian Concerto⁣ – Camerata'' Tokyo, CMCD-25041 (2014) * J. S. Bach: Partitas No. 2, No. 3 & No. 4 – Camerata Tokyo, CMCD-25043 (2016) * J. S. Bach: Partitas No. 1, No. 5 & No. 6 – Camerata Tokyo, CMCD-25044 (2017)

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== External links == * {{official|https://www.corneliaherrmann.com/}} * [http://www.musiktagehundsmarktmuehle.com Musiktage Hundsmarktmühle] * {{Discogs artist}}

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