About

Composer and conductor Will Hermanowski’s 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. Collaborations have included treble voice quartet Quince Ensemble, Daniel Overly (piano) a rehearsal pianist of the Cleveland Orchestra, David Samuel (viola) of the Alexander String Quartet, Drew Peterson (piano), Catering Gregory (flute) of DECODA Ensemble, Eunice Kim (violin) of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Mihai Marica (cello), and Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu (violin). 

Dance Adjacent was presented on Fred Child’s national radio broadcast, Performance Today. Will’s 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 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. Distance went on to win Gold Prize in the 2025 European Classical Music Awards and was recognized as a finalist in the 2025 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Competition. 

Will studied composition under Dr. Jack Gallagher, Dr. Daniel Knaggs, Dr. Mikel Kuehn, Dr. Christopher Dietz, and accomplished his master’s thesis with Dr. Marilyn Shrude. Will has also studied conducting under Dr. Lisa Wong of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Dr. Mark Munson, and Dr. Richard Schnipke. In the fall of 2025, Will plans to begin his Doctor of Musical Arts in Contemporary Music at Bowling Green State University where he will study composition with Dr. Piyawat Louilarpprasert of Taceti Ensemble.