ABOUT
HERMES CAMACHO, composer

Born in the Philippines in 1982, Hermes Camacho was raised in Davis, California.  Recent
notables include awards from 2006 SCI/ASCAP, participation in the Music06 and Music08
Festival, selection for GAMMA-UT 2008, commissioning support from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Arts Council, and a premiere at the Sydney
Conservatorium.  For the 2005-2006 season, he served as Composer-in-Residence with
the Boulder Youth Symphony Society.  In August 2008, Hermes will be a Composition
Fellow at the Chamber Music Conference of the East in Bennington, Vermont.  He has
also participated in several masterclasses, most notably with John Adams, Steve Reich,
Jennifer Higdon, and Augusta Read Thomas.

Hermes has studied composition at California State University, Long Beach and the
University of Colorado at Boulder with Carolyn Bremer, Robin Cox, Daniel Kellogg, and
Richard Toensing, violin with Kimiyo Takeya, and conducting with Akira Endo and Richard
Rintoul.  Currently, he lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Jaclyn, studying composition
with Yevgeniy Sharlat and Dan Welcher at the University of Texas at Austin.  Hermes
stays active as a performer, playing in orchestras and chamber music whenever he can.
Every summer, Hermes serves on the faculty of the Sacramento Youth Symphony
Chamber Music Workshop, as conductor and chamber music coach.  He is also an
assistant instructor at UT and serves on the committee for GAMMA-UT 2009.

In his spare time, Hermes is an avid fan of sports, closely following the Sacramento and
San Francisco area teams and the Big 12 Conference, spending time with his wife, a good
barbecue, and endlessly harassing their orange tabby cat, Mango.

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