Helfricht Kapellmeister at the Theater St. Gallen
Hermes Helfricht will be the new Kapellmeister at Theater St.Gallen from the 2016/2017 season. Born in 1992, the German conductor was most recently engaged as Kapellmeister at the Erfurt Opera.
Born in Radebeul near Dresden in 1992, Hermes Helfricht is a scholarship holder of the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council. He sang in the Dresden Kreuzchor for nine years and assisted Kreuzkantor Roderich Kreile as choir prefect from 2008 to 2010. He studied orchestral conducting with Lutz Köhler and Steven Sloane at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Hermes Helfricht has performed with numerous European orchestras and has a repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary. In Switzerland, he appeared in a production of the Haldenstein Castle Opera (Bat) on the podium of the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden. He made his debut at the Theater St. Gallen in February 2016 with "Eugen Onegin".
Hermes Helfricht has been assistant conductor of the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España since 2014. In 2015, he conducted the "Orchestra 1770" at the Rheinsberg Music Academy. In the 2015/2016 season, he was engaged as Kapellmeister at the Erfurt Theater.
