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Lisa Terry is an avid chamber music performer and soloist on viola da gamba and violoncello. From her home base in New York City, where she is a member of the viol quartet, Parthenia, Lisa is a member of Princeton’s Dryden Ensemble, and 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, Concert Royal, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. She is often heard playing for English Country Dance in the New York City area, and tours in recital with harpsichordists Joanne Kong and Webb Wiggins. Lisa’s first solo album, the suites for viol and harpsichord by François Couperin, will be released 2025.
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 has performed the viola da gamba solo in Richard Einhorn’s “Voices of Light” with John Sinclair and with David Hayes and the New York Choral Society at Lincoln Center.