Ms. Herrmann was raised in Southern California and attended the University of Southern California as a piano performance major in the Resident Honors program at the age of 16. In her junior year she transferred to Indiana University to study with the world-renown pianist, Jorge Bolet.

Her earliest concert tour, at the age of 16, took her to Scandinavia, where she performed in places as diverse as Helsinki, Stockholm and St. Petersburg. She was a semi-finalist in the Busoni International Piano Competition at the age of 20 and then returned to the Northwest for her debut with the Bellingham Symphony orchestra, playing Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, which was termed “flawless” by the press.

Married at the age of 21, Ms. Herrmann settled in Seattle and began teaching and performing actively. An accomplished chamber musician, Ms Herrmann founded the Linden Piano Quartet whose performance in the Artists’ International Competition earned them an invitation to perform at Carnegie Recital Hall. She has performed with many of the finest chamber musicians in the Northwest, including bassoonist Arthur Grossman, violist Helen Callus, cellist David Tonkonogui and the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet. In 1994 she joined the keyboard faculty at the University of Washington where she remained for six years.

As her two children reach college age, Ms. Herrmann has again begun to perform more actively and teaches a full schedule of wonderful students.