English
Hermine Deurloo was born in Amsterdam, and at an early age she started to play music. She completed her studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory on alto saxophone. Shortly after, she fall in love with the chromatic harmonica.
She is now much in demand as a soloist and session musician. Hermine has played with the Metropole Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and with such distinguished musicians as Tony Scherr, Han Bennink, John Engels, Candy Dulfer, Al Jarreau, Toots Thielemans, and Maarten van der Grinten. She has toured the world in the last seven years as a member of the Willem Breuker Kollectief, giving concerts in Japan, America, China, Indonesia and Europe.
With this band she made 3 CDs (Honger-1999, Dorst-2001 and Misery-2002) and 2 DVDs (Jona-2004 and Faust-2005. Hermine has played on various film soundtracks (Puk van de Pettenflet, Erik of het klein Insectenboek) and television themes (Vreemde Kostgangers, RTL4 and Talpa) and the theme for the Unox advertisement.
In 2005 she recorded an album with grammy nominated guitarist/singer/bassplayer Tony Scherr. This album; Crazy Clock. In 2007 her CD ‘Soundbite’ was released. Here Hermine plays with bigband and she produced it together with producer Reinder van Zalk.
