Professor Taras Kutsenko (the stage name is Terry Heimat) 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 New York Film Academy, and the California Berkeley School of Sound Engineering.
Taras Kutsenko - winner of many prestigious awards in the field of musical art, among them: The Seagull Theater Award (2004); Palm Beach International Music Awards (2020): Global Music Awards (2021); Hollywod Awards BLASTOFF ® (2021); Europe Music Award (2022); Los Angeles Silver Mask (2022); Munich Film Awards (2022); Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards (2022); Hollywood Independent Filmmaker Awards (2023); Paris Film Awards (2023); multiple runner-up for GRAMMY® & LATIN GRAMMY® Awards (2023-2025).
Maestro Kutsenko is a member of
- the Artists International Association, and is the recipient of the Order of the "World Cultural Diplomacy".
- Professor Emeritus at Masachussetts University USA
- Professor at Zhangjiajie College Jishow University, Hunan, China.
Taras Kutsenko is the author of methodological manuals and scientific articles on music, which are published in scientific publications around the world.