Caris Hermes
Biography Caris Hermes
Caris Hermes
is currently a major student at the "Folkwang University of the Arts" in Essen, where she studies with bassist Robert Landfermann. Caris Hermes is a multiple prizewinner in the state competition "Jugend jazzt". She won both first prize in the solo category and a band prize with the "Whole Step Quintet" and was awarded the "DEW 21" sponsorship prize. She was a member of the NRW State Youth Jazz Orchestra and toured with this formation in Senegal, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates. With this line-up she recorded the CD "Way Up", which won the WDR Jazz Prize in 2013.
Caris Hermes is a member of many smaller ensembles such as Paul Heller's "Little Bigband" and toured Europe in 2012 with singer Dennis Rowland and the East West European Jazz Orchestra. Caris played at the Viersen Jazz Festival and in April 2014 accompanied a rehearsal of the WDR Big Band, with whom she appeared in the program “Zimmer Frei ab 18” in September 2014.
In February 2015, Caris Hermes was a guest with the Glenn Miller Big Band. In March, she recorded the album “Back To Trad” with the Pascal Bartoszak Quartet and won second prize in the Sparda Jazz Award with this line-up and was a finalist in the Young German Jazz Prize in Osnabrück. She was also able to play with the Jerry Lu Trio at the Rhein Ruhr Piano Festival.
In 2015, Caris was also a lecturer and guest of the Jazz Groove Big Band in Peru/Lima and played with Elio Villafranca (piano lecturer at the Julliard School New York) and other well-known musicians.
Caris Hermes has been accompanied on her musical journey by musicians such as Denis Gäbel, Steffen Schorn, Marcio Doctor, Luciano Biondini, Afra Mussawissade, Gabriel Perez, Ansgar Striepens, John Goldsby, Robert Landfermann, Stefan Pfeifer, Stefan Schulze, Marko Lackner, Michael Villmow, Frederik Köster, Bruno Castelucci, Glauco Venier, Uli Beckerhoff, Peter O'Mara, Henning Gailing and Paul Heller.
