About

Will Hermanowski (b. 2000) is a composer and conductor from Aurora, Ohio. His music captures vivid images and colors from his personal life and other art forms. Will has enjoyed collaborating with ensembles, performers, and composers at the Divergent Music Studio, the Atlantic Music Festival, the Emerging Composers Intensive, and the Saint Mary’s Composition Intensive.

Will was chosen for the Klingler Electroacoustic Residency through the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at Bowling Green State University; he composed Distance for Quince Ensemble. During his undergraduate studies at the College of Wooster, Will met composer Molly Leach. The two of them are currently Artists in Residence at Wild Basin Nature Preserve in Austin, Texas. Will and Molly have explored the nature preserve, capturing live sounds that will be processed to create a fixed media composition. His piece Dance Adjacent was presented on Fred Child’s national radio broadcast, Performance Today. The piece also went on to win first prize in the 2024 Ohio Federation of Music Clubs, was the winner of the Bowling Green Concerto Competition, and was a finalist in the 2024 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Competition.

Will received a B.M. in Music Composition from the College of Wooster studying composition under Dr. Jack Gallagher and Dr. Daniel Knaggs and conducting under Dr. Lisa Wong. Will achieved his M.M. in Music Composition at Bowling Green State University under the leadership of Dr. Mikel Kuehn, Dr. Christopher Dietz, and accomplished his thesis with Dr. Marilyn Shrude. He has also completed his M.M. in Choral Conducting under Dr. Mark Munson and Dr. Richard Schnipke.