Johan Hermans is an internationally active organist who has performed in cathedrals, churches and concert halls in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. Among other cities, he has played in Paris, New York, Montevideo, Melbourne, London, Hong Kong, Brussels, Adelaide, Erfurt, Osaka, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Seattle, Singapore, Saint Petersburg, Sydney and Washington, D.C. His international activities also include masterclasses, guest lectures, and radio and television recordings.

His repertoire spans several style periods, from the Renaissance to contemporary music. He has given the world premieres of a number of new organ works, several of them written especially for him.

Hermans studied at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven and the Royal Conservatory of Liège. He obtained the Diplôme Supérieur in organ and completed his training with a thesis on rhetoric and the doctrine of the affections in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. With the support of the Flemish and Walloon governments, he attended international masterclasses with leading organists in France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy.

He teaches at the Knst.Podium Hasselt conservatory and the GAvoorKunst academy in Genk, where his subjects are organ, keyboard, accompaniment practice and improvisation.

Since 2006 he has been cathedral organist of St Quentin’s Cathedral in Hasselt, and since 2009 city organist of Hasselt. He is the founder of the International Organ Festival Hasselt and artistic director of several organ concert series. He is also Dean of the European Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

In recognition of his artistic achievements, he has twice been honoured by the Société Académique Arts-Sciences-Lettres in Paris.