Debra Terry began learning the violin under the guidance of her music teacher and mother, Cheryl Terry and continued her studies with many teachers growing up including Dr. John Kendall, Maestro Abraham Chavez, Michael Goldman, Dr. Walter Verdehr, Andrew Jennings, and Dr. Carmelo de los Santos.

Ms. Terry has attended extensive violin workshops in Germany, Ireland, and Belgium and has participated in master classes with Almita Vamos, Donald McInnes, Paul Kantor, Brian Lewis, Stephen Clapp, and Simon Fischer.

Ms. Terry has played with many Michigan orchestras including the Jackson Symphony, the Midland Symphony, the Saginaw/Bay City Symphony, the Lansing Symphony, and the Flint Symphony as well as orchestras in New Mexico and Texas including the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the New Mexico Philharmonic, the Santa Fe Symphony, the Figueroa Project, and the El Paso Symphony Orchestra.  

In the spring of 2011, Ms. Terry joined a tour of The Mikado and Pirates of Penzance with the Gilbert & Sullivan Players of New York. She has also enjoyed performing as a regional contract musician with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and has lent her talent to the phenomenal vocals of Josh Groban and Amy Grant. She has also enjoyed playing musicals at the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan.

Ms. Terry has also enjoyed a small solo career to include numerous solo recitals as well as performances with orchestras at Sunday Chatter in Albuquerque, NM as well as a couple of appearances with the Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra. The most recent of these was a double performance of Dharma at Big Sur for 6-string electric violin by John Adams in October of 2013.

Ms. Terry earned a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance in 2003, from Michigan State University and graduated in 2010 with a Master of Performance and certification in long-term Suzuki Teacher Training from the University of New Mexico.

Ms. Terry currently lives in Livonia, Michigan and enjoys occasional solo performances, performing with her piano trio, Duquesa Trio, performing as a 1st violin section player in the Santa Fe Symphony and the Flint Symphony Orchestra as well as a substitute violinist with the New Mexico Philharmonic in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra in Saginaw, Michigan.  She teaches violin using the Suzuki method in her own private studio in Livonia, MI.

For more information regarding performances or lessons, please contact Ms. Terry here.

For 7 years, Ms. Terry worked under the tutelage of Susan Kempter in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the Suzuki Lab School program. This is an in-depth Suzuki teaching program dedicated to the long-term training of university students in the Suzuki method as well as giving these students a deeper understanding of other methods available to teachers and students. The program includes hands on teacher training in the group class setting as well as a mentorship program for the private lessons. Ms. Terry finished her own training through this program in the spring of 2010 and then became one of the mentors of the program until her recent move back to Michigan.

For more information on the Suzuki method, please visit www.suzukiassociation.org  and for more information on lessons with Ms. Terry, please visit www.sharpsuzukistrings.com

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