Maestro Taras Kutsenko ( the stage name is Terry Heimat) is a native of Ukraine. He currently resides in China where he is the professor and the conductor of the local orchestra.
Terry is a graduate of the most prestigious and elite universities and conservatories of music including the Moscow School of Musical Performance and Composition (Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory), the Leningrad (Sankt Petersburg) School of Conducting, the Kharkiv National University of Arts, the New York Film Academy, and the Berklee College of Music of Sound Engineering.
Collaboration: Francis Goya, Al di Meola, Amaury Gutierez, Richard Baravo, Camilo Valencia, Leonid Agutin, Camilo Velandia, Angelica Varum, Julio Ariel Diaz, Slava Vakarchuk, Lilian Garcia, Raisa Batista, Rayko Batista, Rafael Ernesto Perez Martinez, Anthony Quinones, Christian Medina, Nam San Fong, Sloboda Virtuosi Orchestra, ENIGMA tribute, METALLICA tribute, Zhangjiajie Philharmonic Orchestra.
Terry Heimat is the winner of numerous video and music awards such as the Global Music Awards, Seagull Award (CHAIKA), Europe Music Award, Hollywood BLASTOFF, Los Angeles Silver Mask, Hollywood Independent Filmmaker Awards, New Media Film Awards, Palm Beach International Music Awards, Paris Film Awards, Munich Film Awards, Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards.
Chief conductor of Zhangjiajie Philharmonic Orchestra, Hunan, China.
Maestro Kutsenko is a Professor at Zhangjiajie University, Hunan, China.