Terry Jenoure

Terry Jenoure (born Theresa Jenoure on September 22, 1953 in New York City ) is an American violinist, singer, composer and visual artist.

Life

Raised in a Puerto Rican-Jamaican family in the Bronx , Jenoure received music lessons from the age of seven. She studied philosophy (bachelor) and education (master, doctorate). She also worked as a doll maker .

Jenoure performed in 1987 with Leroy Jenkins' band at the Moers Festival . The collaboration with Sibylle Pomorin led to the album Auguries of Speed (1991) and to further appearances and the performance of newer compositions (most recently in 2006 in Berlin with Herb Robertson and Kim Clarke ). Jenoure is currently leading her own ensemble. She has also played and recorded with musicians such as Henry Threadgill , Archie Shepp , Reggie Workman , Andrew Cyrille , Butch Morris , John Carter and Elliott Sharp . With the dancer Maria Mitchell she also performed her program "Josephine Baker - A Celebration of Life in Stages" in Germany. In 2004 she was the first to receive the grant from Vor Ort in Wuppertal as Artist in Residence . Together with the Helios string quartet and Sebastian Gramss , she recorded the CD "Looks Like Me", which was released in May 2006 on the Free Elephant label .

She teaches at Lesley University in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences and directs the Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Jenoure has published a book and numerous articles on improvisation and its value in music education. She has also advised the National Endowment for the Arts , the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fund , the Ford Foundation, and the Connecticut Commission for Arts and Tourism .

Publications

• T. Jenoure: Navigators: African American Musicians, Dancers, and Visual Artists in Acadame . 1999, ISBN 978-0-7914-4354-5

Web links

• Biography at DegemWebradio
• Moers: Concerts in the Dark (2007)