Mike Herriott began playing the trumpet at six years of age. Born in England and raised in Newfoundland by musical parents, he won numerous regional and national awards throughout his formative years as a musician. By the time Mike was eleven, he was already performing for large audiences and recording for CBC radio and television.
Now an accomplished and respected musician in both the classical and jazz genres, Mike is also widely recognized as a multi-instrumentalist. Now based in Toronto, Canada, he is much in demand on trumpet, trombone, and bass, both on stage and in the studio. A musician of great versatility and ability, Mike has shared the stage with some of the world’s finest musicians including Maynard Ferguson, Slide Hampton, Phil Nimmons,Maria Schneider, Bob Newhart, Jay Leno, Michael Buble, The Temptations, Johnny Mathis, The Moody Blues, Tommy Banks, Hugh Fraser, Chucho Valdes, Kenny Wheeler, Rob McConnell, Ian McDougall, and the late Sir Yehudi Menuhin.
Mike’s first solo symphonic pops show The Trumpet Shall Sound is an
entertaining journey through 300 years of trumpet music that explores the musical worlds of Handel, Haydn, and Hummel as well as those of Dizzy, Miles, and Maynard. Utilizing his talents on the Bb Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Eb Trumpet, and Piccolo Trumpet, Mike has performed the show as guest soloist with a number of Canadian orchestras. His newest program, Gettin’ Dizzy: A Tribute to the Swinging Trumpet is straight ahead pops and will debut with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in September, 2006.
A strong believer in the value of music education, Mike is on the faculties of the Courtenay Youth Music Centre Instrumental and Jazz summer programs, the IMC Jazz Camp in Ontario, and is also trumpet clinician for the Hugh Fraser Jazz Orchestra Workshop at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He has also presented master-classes and clinics at universities, colleges, and secondary schools across Canada.
Mike appears on numerous CD’s including his own most recent release Unto the Breach…, on Roadhouse Records. He is heard regularly on CBC with his own bands and such groups as Hugh Fraser and VEJI, and Vancouver’s Orquesta Goma Dura.