Lisa Terry
Lisa Terry is an avid chamber music performer and soloist on viola da gamba and violoncello. She has spent her career as a member of many of the best-known chamber ensembles in the early music scene of the Northeast. From her home base in New York City, where she is a member of the viol quartet, Parthenia, Lisa works regularly with BALAM Dance Theatre and Princeton’s Dryden Ensemble, and she is principal cellist and viol soloist with Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia’s baroque orchestra. Lisa was a founding member of ARTEK, and has performed with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Juilliard Opera Orchestra, Opera Lafayette, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Concert Royal. Lisa has served the Viola da Gamba Society of America as President, and she is often heard playing for English Country Dance in and around New York City, and at Pinewoods Camp in Massachusetts. Lisa 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. She has appeared to great acclaim as soloist in the Passions of J.S. Bach, notably under the batons of Robert Shaw, Richard Westenburg, Kent Tritle and Lyndon Woodside in Carnegie Hall, in the Jonathan Miller staged performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music conducted by Paul Goodwin, and at the Winter Park Bach Festival, conducted by John Sinclair. Lisa Terry has performed the viola da gamba solo in Richard Einhorn’s “Voices of Light” with Sinclair, and with David Hayes and the New York Choral Society at Alice Tully Hall. Lisa Terry’s first album, PIECES DE VIOLE of Couperin and Ste-Colombe, with harpsichordist Webb Wiggins, will be released on MSR Classics.