Dutch conductor Drummado Wijnhamer has  conducted orchestras including the MDR-Sinfonieorchester and the Dresdner Philharmonie. In the past season he debued with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel  and Neue Philharmonie Westfalen. He gained experience as assistant conductor with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (NL), and the Belgian National Orchestra, working with Lahav Shani, Vladimir Jurowski, Karina Canellakis, Edward Gardner, and Antony Hermus, among others.

He has collaborated several times with the Dutch National Opera Academy, conducting concert excerpts from Die Fledermaus, Hänsel und Gretel, and Carmen, and took part in a production of Suor Angelica in Saluzzo.

He worked with the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Jena Philharmonic, and the Hofer Symphoniker.

In October 2026 Drummado has been awarded as the winner (Second prize) of the first Solti International Conducting Competition in Budapest where he conducted the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Pannon Philharmonic. He will return to the orchestras in the next season. He won first prize in the conducting competition of the Central German music academies in January 2025, conducting the MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig. The orchestra invited him back for two projects in the 2025/26 season. He also received third prize in the CAMPUS Dirigieren Competition and was a semi-finalist at the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors. In 2025, Wijnhamer was awarded the Kersjes Conducting Prize.

Since March 2026, he has been a conducting fellow of Forum Dirigieren of the Deutscher Musikrat.

He has also conducted at festivals such as the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam and the Festival Dag in de Branding in The Hague. 

His orchestral conducting studies include the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar, where he studied with Prof. Ekhart Wycik, Johannes Klumpp, and Prof. Gregor Bühl, and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he studied with Ed Spanjaard, Antony Hermus, Bas Wiegers, and Karel Deseure.