Łukasz Hermanowicz studied choral conducting at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz under Professor Janusz Stanecki (honours degree) as well as symphonic and opera conducting under Professor Wojciech Michniewski (undergraduate programme) and Professor Elżbieta Wiesztordt (graduate programme). He honed his skills during workshops led by Gary Graden (USA/Sweden), Fernando Gil Estrada (Ecuador), Jacek Sykulski (Poland), Philip Lawson (UK), Robert Sund (Sweden), and Tatyana Malysheva (Russia). He won Third Prize in the 15th Choral Conductors’ Competition in Poznań in 2014 and reached the finals of the Juozas Naujalis International Competition for Choral Conductors in Vilnius in 2017.
From 2009 to 2017 he was a member of the vocal quartet Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz, specialising in Renaissance music. Together with the ensemble, he gave nearly 200 concerts in Poland and abroad, and released 7 albums. Between 2014 and 2017 he worked as a lecturer and accompanist at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz and co-directed the Chamber Choir of the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music and the Collegium Medicum Choir of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Bydgoszcz, together with Professor Janusz Stanecki.
Since 2018 he has been a chorus master with the Polish National Opera, where he has prepared the chorus for 20 new productions and more than 340 revivals. He has worked with eminent directors including Mariusz Treliński, David Pountney, Annilese Miskimmon, Mark Weiss, John Fulljames, Jere Erkkilä, and Barbara Wysocka, as well as such renowned conductors as Patrick Fournillier, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Grzegorz Nowak, Jacek Kaspszyk, Łukasz Borowicz, Michał Klauza, Carlo Montanaro, Lothar Koenigs, Keri Lynn-Wilson, Andriy Yurkevych, and Tim Murray. He has conducted the chorus in performances of Aida, Madama Butterfly, Carmen, Tosca, La Boheme, The Magic Flute, Halka, Cardillac, La forza del destino, Peter Grimes, and Billy Budd. He is also the chorus master of the Media Choir, with which he has recorded 2 albums for the Romuald Traugutt Philharmonic, and the artistic director of the Wacław Lachman Male Choir in Warsaw. He has conducted such orchestras as Capella Bydgostiensis, Toruń Symphony Orchestra, Warmia and Mazury Philharmonic, Zielona Góra Philharmonic, Sinfonia Baltica, Johann Strauss Orchestra in Bydgoszcz, and Gdynia Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded works by Zbigniew Bargielski in cooperation with the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (DUX).
