Photo by FocalPoint Photography  Erik Hasselquist, trumpeteveland trumpet brass quintet music entertanment A native of the upper Midwest, Erik Hasselquist was the youngest person ever added to the substitute musician list of the Minnesota Orchestra at the age of nineteen. He was later awarded a full-tuition Regent’s scholarship to the Arizona State University to study trumpet with Mr. David Hickman, trumpet soloist, where he graduated in 2005 Magna cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Trumpet Performance.
Upon completion of his undergraduate studies, Erik moved to Cleveland to study trumpet at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), where he was a student of the principal trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra, Michael Sachs. While studying at CIM, Mr. Hasselquist was honored to receive the Bernard Adelstein Prize in Trumpet, and the Dr. Calvin E. Weber Award in Trumpet, making him the first student in CIM’s history to do so. Erik was also honored to receive the Helen Curtis Webster Award, awarded to an outstanding graduate student at the Institute of Music, from the Fortnightly Club of Cleveland. This award had not been won by a wind player for the last twenty years. Mr. Hasselquist graduated from CIM in 2007 with an Artist’s Diploma.
In September of 2007, Erik won the position of 2nd/Utility Trumpet of the Canton Symphony, and continues to perform there. He has also performed with Opera Cleveland and the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Bolshoi Ballet on tour in Arizona, the Arizona Ballet, the Symphony of the West Valley, and was the principal trumpet in the Desert Foothills Festival Orchestra in Pima Arizona from 2001-2005.
Erik also regularly performs with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Canton Symphony, the Akron Symphony, the Cleveland Pops, the Mansfield Symphony, and the Trinity Chamber Orchestra. He can be heard on Robert Spring’s CD Blackdog released on Summit records in 2005, in addition to session work for Living Head Studios in Phoenix, Arizona.
Mr. Hasselquist teaches trumpet to his private studio in Cleveland Heights, and is the founder of the Bethany Brass Quintet and the Ohio Brass Ensembles.
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