Andre Rieu Orchestra
René Henket was born on May 23rd, 1968. He comes from a musical family and started playing the trumpet at the age of eight. His first trumpet teacher was Pierre Wilhelmus.
In 1987 he went to the conservatory in Maastricht where he studied the main subjects trumpet, schoolmusic and hafa conducting. With Guido Seegers he graduated on the trumpet in 1993. Successfully graduated on schoolmusic in 1994 and in 1995 Hafa conducting with Jo Conjaerts.
After his conservatory study in Maastricht, René continued his studies at the Musikhochschule in Köln with Heinz Meures, where he obtained both his “Instrumental Pedagogiek” and “Künstlerische Reifeprüfung”.
René has been a trumpet player with the Johann Strauss orchestra of André Rieu since 1988. Together with this orchestra, André became worldfamous and played in all the major concert halls of the world.
René collects teaching methods for trumpet and due to his travels all over the world this has become a large collection. This is in line with his motto, "every student is unique and deserves a simular treatment"
rene.henket@gmail.com