Andre Heuvelman was born in 1966. He studied the Rotterdam Conservatory with Ad van zon and graduated Cum Laude in 1989. He had guestlesson with Prof. Ludwig Guttler in Dresden and Johannes Laubin in Stuttgart. Since 1990 is Andre member of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1997 he became principal trumpet. He played as a soloist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic with chiefconductor Valery Gergiev on tour to Vienna, and London. Besides that he is a frquently asked soloist with dutch (chamber)orchestras. In 1994 he released his first solocd “Vivace” with baroqueconcerto’s In comtemporary music he was a soloist, invited by the composer Klaas de Vries in his opera “A King Riding” in the circustheater in brussels and the Holland Festival Carre Amsterdam. This opera is also recorded as a live cd. Andre Heuvelman is professor of trumpet at the Codarts Conservatory in Rotterdam and Fontys College of Music in Tilburg.