Michael Heckenkamp
2002 ARTS National Finalist
Percussionist
Michael Gerard Heckenkamp attended Oconomowoc High School in Oconomowoc, WI. He has also received instruction at the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra. He was named a 2001 NFAA Regional ARTS Platinum Award Winner. In 2000 he was a Menomee Falls Young Artist Concerto Competition Winner and a La Crosse Rising Stars Tri-State Concerto Competition Finalist.
Michael was a 1999 Madison Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Concerto Competition Winner and a 1999 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Concerto Competition Winner.
Michael will be studying percussion with Fernando Meza at the School of Music at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Linda Siegel,
percussionist for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Mike Krofta,
band conductor at Michael's high school, have had the
most significant
influence
on his development as a percussionist.