As an emerging respected scholar from Venezuela and the U.S., Hermann’s research articles and reviews have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Oxford Bibliographies, Current Musicology, Latin American Music Review, Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review, Tempo, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Revista Musical Chilena, Músicaenclave, Harvard Review of Latin America, and the Journal of the Society for American Music. His recent publications examine the musical/cultural contributions of a selection of Latinx/American composers in the United States. This research project has been supported by a grant from the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation. Because of his expertise, the Latino Studies section of Oxford Bibliographies contracted him to write music entries and Current Musicology invited him to participate on the editorial board (Vol. 111, 2023). Moreover, recently, the editors of the Routledge Global Popular Music Series appointed him as the editor for the book project Made in Venezuela and his chapter, “Bernstein and Latin America,” was published in the Bernstein in Context volume (Cambridge University Press), invited by the editor Elizabeth A. Wells.
Hermann’s current book project Negotiating Politics and Aesthetics: Latinx/American Modern Art Music at Tanglewood (1940-1965) addresses the relationship between music and politics. This research has been generously supported by the Center for Ideas and Society (UC Riverside) and UC MEXUS, where he served as a scholar-in-residence. Two writings related to this research topic received second prize and an honorable mention from the Otto Mayer-Serra Award for Music Research.
Hermann is a classical guitar recitalist, having given performances at such distinguished venues as the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, Graphik Museum “Pablo Picasso”, St. Elizabeth-Kirche and Lateinamerikanischen Musiktage in Germany, Maryland University, the Venezuelan Arts Gallery of New York, La Universidad Central de Venezuela, Fundación John Boulton, Casa de Estudios Latinoamericanos “Rómulo Gallegos”, and Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela in Caracas, Wasserstaawerk Concertgebow in Holland, Sala Teatina at the University of Chicago Fulton Recital Hall, the Mexican Institute of Culture and Education in Chicago, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Keller Room at the New England Conservatory, MIT Guest Artist Concerts, King’s Chapel, St. Paul Cathedral, La Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris, and L’Université de Franche-Comtè in Besancon, France. The University of California, Riverside (2017-21) honored him four times as a Gluck Fellow of the Arts, granting him access to public schools throughout Southern California to present interactive live music programs. Previously, in Boston, Hermann received a Performance Outreach Fellowship from the New England Conservatory of Music (2006-07).
Hermann’s experience in higher education includes teaching music courses at Claremont Colleges, Soka University of America New England Conservatory of Music, Cambridge Centre for International Research, and the University of California, Riverside.
In recognition of his holistic work (scholar, pedagogue, performer, and public service), Hermann was awarded a Future of Music Faculty Fellowship at Cleveland Institute of Music (2022-23).
