Hannes Biermann

Double Basses
Hannes Biermann
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Bildrechte über Hamburgische Staatsoper

Hannes Biermann was born in Hamburg in 1980 and began playing cello at the age of eight. Later, he switched to the double bass and after an intensive year of coaching by Gerhard Kleinert (principal bass of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra) he joined the National Youth Orchestra of Germany. His studies took him to Lübeck, Helsinki and Frankfurt / Main, where Christoph Schmidt was his teacher before graduation in 2008. Hannes Biermann was an intern at the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, associate principal at the Lübeck Philharmonic and substitute principal at the Finnish Radio Symphony orchestra. After completing a limited engagement, he became first principal bass at the Wiesbaden State Orchestra and played regularly as a guest of the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra and the Mannheim National Theatre. Since 2014 Hannes Biermann has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.

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