L i s a  T e r r y
early music/baroque classes

Lisa Terry practices, performs and teaches in New York City where she is a long-time member of Parthenia, the Dryden Ensemble and ARTEK. A Mississippi native, she earned her degree in cello performance from Memphis State University and continued her studies in New York with Richard Taruskin, viol, and Harry Wimmer, cello. Lisa's great love in teaching is to help students be patient about mastering each new level of technique, so that the music making becomes natural.

Lisa Terry is an acclaimed specialist in performing the viol solos in the great Passions of J.S. Bach, notably under the batons of Robert Shaw in Carnegie Hall and Andrew Parrot with the New York Collegium, and in staged productions by Jonathan Miller at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She has appeared as soloist on cello and viola da gamba with the New York City Opera, the Juilliard Opera Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Concert Royal, the American Classical Orchestra, and Four Nations Ensemble. She was instructor in the Historical Music Program at the State University of New York at Purchase College and at Columbia University, and has recorded for Lyrichord, MHS, Newport Classics, Zefiro and Museovich Productions.