Companions along the way
Michael Hermann has maintained longstanding relations and collaboration with many musicians, with some of whom he has developed a close friendship. It is quite natural that several of his artist friends will make a stop in the Rheingau during this Jubilee season. Before Michael Herrmann founded the Rheingau Musik Festival e.V. (a registered association) in 1987, and thus launched the Rheingau Musik Festival, he had been working on Gran Canaria for a few years where, in the spring of 1973, he made the acquaintance of Justus Frantz and Christoph Eschenbach. After his return to Germany he worked for various artists' management companies in Munich. His first contacts with the piano duo Anthony and Joseph Paratore as well as with the pianists Gerhard Oppitz, Oleg Maisenberg and Ewa Kupiec date back to that time. Some time later, Michael Herrmann founded his own agency and started promoting concerts – amongst others with artists from the then still existing GDR, who had already been successfully performing in the Federal Republic of Germany. Among those artists were the trumpeter Ludwig Güttler and the double-bass player Helmut Branny. With Walter Renneisen, Michael Hermann has the Hessian dialect in common, and his wonderful friendship with the Baron Enoch zu Guttenberg began after attending a concert in the Herkulessaal at Munich. A very special honour is due to Frieder Bernius and his Chamber Choir, for it was Frieder Bernius who performed the very first concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival on June 23, 1988.
All events of »Companions along the way«
27.6.2012 Virtuosi Saxoniae / Ludwig Güttler
06.7.2012 Kammerchor Stuttgart / Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart / Frieder Bernius
08.7.2012 Anthony & Joseph Paratore / Dresdner Kapellsolisten / Helmut Branny
26.7.2012 Windsbacher Knabenchor / Martin Lehmann
27.7.2012 Babette Haag & Ensemble Pandora
29.7.2012 Ewa Kupiec
07.8.2012 Gerhard Oppitz
09.8.2012 Denis Matsuev / Philharmonie der Nationen / Justus Frantz
14.8.2012 »Von der Pampelmuse geküsst« / Walter Renneisen
15.8.2012 »Von der Pampelmuse geküsst« / Walter Renneisen
16.8.2012 Tzimon Barto & Christoph Eschenbach
29.8.2012 Oleg Maisenberg
30.8.2012 Gächinger Kantorei / Bach-Collegium Stuttgart / Helmuth Rilling
01.9.2012 Chorgemeinschaft Neubeuern / Orchester der KlangVerwaltung München / Enoch zu Guttenberg
