Carole Terry

Carole Ruth Terry (* 1948 ) is an American organist , harpsichord player and music teacher .

Life

Carole Terry received her musical training at Southern Methodist University in Dallas , Texas (organ with Robert T. Anderson , harpsichord with Larry Palmer), the Eastman School of Music (organ with David Craighead) and Stanford University , where she received her Doctorate in 1977 of Musical Arts. Her teachers at Stanford were Herbert Nanney (organ), Margaret Fabrizio (harpsichord) and Joan Benson (fortepiano and clavichord). In 1979 she received a professorship for organ and harpsichord at the University of Washington in Seattle . From 2000 to 2003 she was resident organist and curator of the CB Fisk organ at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, home of the Seattle Symphony .

Her international concert activities as an organist and harpsichordist have taken her to the United States, Europe and Asia. In addition, she is a much sought-after jury member at international organ competitions and lecturer in the field of historical performance practice.

Discography (selection)

• Brombaugh organs of the Northwest.
  • Works by John Dowland, Melchior Schildt, Samuel Scheidt, Jan Pieterszon Sweelinck, Peter Mohrhardt, Heinrich Scheidemann and Matthias Weckmann.
    • Carole Terry, organ. Recorded June 1983 on John Brombaugh organs at Grace Episcopal Church, Ellensbur, WA, Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma, WA, and Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, OR. Ocean, NJ: Musical Heritage Society, 1986. MHS 7368. 1 LP.

• 20th century harpsichord works.
  • Vincent Persichetti (Sonata No. 1 op.51), William Albright (Four Fancies), Ned Rorem (Spiders) and Henry Cowell (Set of four).
    • Carole Terry, harpsichord. Recorded in Seattle in August and November 1985. New York, NY: CRI, 1986 CRI SD 533. 1 LP.

• The complete organ works of Johannes Brahms.
  • Carole Terry, organ. Flentrop Organ at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle. Ocean, NJ: Musical Heritage Society, 1990. MHS 512523M. 1 CD.

• Carole Terry in Schwerin.
  • Works by Johann Gottlob Töpfer, August Wilhelm Bach, Johann Georg Herzog , Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, Joseph Rheinberger, Julius Reubke, August Gottfried Ritter, Ernst Friedrich Richter, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms and Johann Friedrich Ludwig Thiele.
    • Carole Terry, organ. Recorded in August 1996 on the Ladegast organ in Schwerin Cathedral . Seattle: Ambassador Recording Corporation, 1998. ARC 1021. 2 CDs.

• Carole Terry plays the Watjen concert organ.
  • Works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, William Albright, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Stanley, Robert Schumann, Louis Vierne and Charles-Marie Widor.
    • Carole Terry, organ. Recorded on December 13-20, 2004 and September 23, 2006 on the CB Fisk Organ Opus 114 at Benaroya Hall, Seattle. Seattle, WA: Loft Recordings, 2008. LRCD-1105. 1 CD.

Web links

• Carole Terry on the University of Washington website
• Carole Terry on the Philip Truckenbrod Concert Artists website
• Article on Benaroya Hall, Seattle, in the English Wikipedia
• Joan Benson ( September 20, 2006 memento in the Internet Archive )
• University of Washington in Seattle, Washington (USA)
• Literature by and about Carole Terry in the WorldCat bibliographic database