Terry Heckman has been the Principal Trumpet of the Saskatoon Symphony since 1991, and the Bandmaster of the Saskatoon Brass Band since 1998. He is also a member of the Saskatchewan Brass, and frequently performs with many other ensembles. Terry also accepted a position as the Orchestra Personnel Manager with the Saskatoon Symphony in September 2011.
As a soloist, Terry has been featured a number of times with the Saskatoon Symphony—in Purcell’s Sonata, Trumpet Concertos of Haydn and Hetu, Copland’s Quiet City, Barber’s Capricorn Concerto, and Bach’s Second Brandenburg Concerto. Terry has also established himself as a teacher, clinician and adjudicator of brass instruments and bands throughout the prairie provinces. He is a sessional instructor for the University of Saskatchewan Music Department, and an adjudicator at various Saskatchewan Music Festival Association festivals.
Terry has been a member of the Regina and Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestras, and earlier played in the Youth Orchestras of Calgary and Victoria. His introduction to music took place in the Regina Lions Band under the leadership of Bob Mossing, at Sheldon-Williams Collegiate, and at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts at Fort San. Private lessons with Don Schultz and David Dando influenced Terry to pursue music at university.
Terry holds a Bachelor of Music (Education) from the University of Victoria and a Licentiate in Music (Performance) from McGill University. He has studied with Louis Ranger, Robert Earley and Howard Engstrom, as well as at workshops with Vincent Cichowicz and Armando Ghitalla.
He has served on the Executive Board of the Saskatoon Musicians’ Association, AFM Local 553, the Saskatoon Symphony Players’ Association Players’ Committee and Negotiating Committee, and as Production Manager for the Saskatoon Symphony.