Dr. Nicholas Terry

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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

With Brightwork Newmusic, performing at numerous universities and concert presenters throughout Southern California, including: Impulse Music Festival, Jacaranda Music, Hear Now Music Festival, the Colburn School, CSU Los Angeles, Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, and San Bernardino.

With the Grammy-winning PARTCH Ensemble, performing the complete "Wayward" by composer Harry Partch. REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles. Performance includes a world première by composer Kyle Gann.

Performed world premiere of Two Marimbas by composer Paulo Chagas as part of the Percussive Arts Society International Convention's "New Music/Research" concerts focusing on the percussion music of Central and South American composers.

Under the baton of emeritus music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, performing Lou Harrison's Concerto for Orchestra and Percussion. Green Umbrella concert series, Disney Hall, Nov 9, 2023.

Discussions in Percussion Episode #361 features an extended interview with host Damon Grant on my musical projects in Los Angeles, my work as an educator at Chapman University, my training in the midwest as a younger musician, and other topics.

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing concerts, educational outreach events, and recording projects on the campuses of the University of Redlans, CSU Fullerton, and CSU Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California. Featured performances at LA's Hear Now Music Festival included a performance of Chapman composer Sean Heim, and a review of Brightwork's performance at Monk Space in June garnered a positive review in the Los Angeles Times. (see link)

With the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, performing the music of Ellen Reid, Meridith Monk, and Hannah Kendall. Disney Hall (4/19/22)

With the Los Angeles Philharmonic, performing RipRap, a one-movement tour de force for marimba and string orchestra by Gabriella Smith.

With Southern California Marimba, performing the world premiere of Christina Araoka's I Still Believe in our City.

Performance of "Rhythm Meditation No. 1", a concert of original music for percussion, electronic sounds, and video. Guest performances by Chapman Faculty Liz Maxwell (dance) and Michael Nehring (actor).

With Brightwork Newmusic, performing the music of William Kraft at a memorial concert event, featuring musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic. UCLA Schoenberg Hall

PARTCH Ensemble: PREMIERES. Presented via closed-circut streaming video by the REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, as part of their featured concert season. https://www.redcat.org/event/partch-ensemble-premieres

With Brightwork Newmusic, participated in reading sessions, virtual events, recordings, and live performances as part of their High School Composer Initiative. Funded in part by NewMusic USA and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Brightwork's HSCI provided thirteen Los Angeles-based composers an opportunity to intensively refine their emerging compositional voices.

With Brightwork Newmusic, participated in video/audio recordings and livestreaming events for the music departments of UC - Riverside, CalPoly Pomona, and the 20th anniversary of CSU - Fullerton's New Music Festival, featuring a work recorded on Chapman's campus (see minute 37:52 of the associated link).

with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Percussion Group, performing the music of Bjarnason, Saariaho, and Wallin. Presented by the Philharmonic's Green Umbrella series, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

published original composition, Before You Know It, on Youtube

with Brightwork newmusic, celebrating the ensemble's "Non Profit Launch Concert" at Tuesdays @ Monk Space, featuring a performance of NT's original composition, Modicum's Semblance, for percussion and bass clarinet

Members of PARTCH ensemble (Nick Terry, TJ Troy, Eric Barnes) interviewed on The @Percussion Podcast

With the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, world premiere performance of "Gyre: Ghosts with Accents" by composer James Gardner. Commissioned by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, with Benjamin Northy (Artistic Director & Conductor). Review by Radio New Zealand: ? https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/audio/2018714442/review-cso-s-the-planets-and-los-angeles-percussion-quartet

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, concert recitals presented at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch), Victoria University's New Zealand School of Music, and the University of Auckland

with the Chapman Percussion Ensemble, conducting/performing the music of Bela Bartok, Owen Clayton Condon, Eugene Novotney, and Istvan Marta

with PARTCH ensemble, performing Harry Partch's "The Wayward", presented by Jacaranda Music, First Presbyterian Church, Santa Monica

with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, performing Luciano Berio's Sifonia (11/17/18), Vijay Iyer and Hermeto Pascoal (1/15/19), Ryoji Ikeda (2/15/19), and as part of the Toyota Symphonies for Youth (1/26/19 & 2/20/19)

world premiere of Hugh Levick (Hear Now Festival) solo for speaking percussionist, The After World. Wende Gallery, 2/1/19

numerous performances & masterclasses throughout Southern California with Brightwork Newmusic, including Harvey Mudd College (10/17/18 & 2/24/19), California State University Dominguez Hills (10/23/18 & 3/5/19), California State University - Northridge (3/5/19), the Hear Now Festival (Venice, 5/4/19), the Church of Truth (Pasadena, 3/3/19), and Monk Space (6/25/19)

with Los Angeles Philharmonic's New Music Group, performing music of Helmut Lachanmann and Marcos Balter as part of LA Phil's Green Umbrella concert series. Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, performing four world premiere compositions commissioned as part of LAPQ's second annual Composer Initiative program

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing "Descent Into Madness: A Concert of Cautionary Music", featuring Miss Donnithorne's Maggot by composer Peter Maxwell Davies. California State University, San Bernardino & Boston Court (Pasadena, CA)

with Los Angeles Philharmonic's New Music Group & Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, performing music of Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Andrew McIntosh as part of LA Phil's Green Umbrella concert series. Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, presented the world premiere of "There will Come Soft Rains" by composer Pamela Madsen, funded in part by the National Endowment of the Arts and New Music USA. California State University, Fullerton.

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing the music of Liviu Marinescu and Daniel Kessner. California State University, Northridge.

co-directed & performed "Chinary Ung at 75", an evening concert celebrating the music of composer Chinary Ung. Musco Center for the Arts, Chapman University

world-premeire performance of Chinary Ung's "Therigatha Inside Aura" as part of Scripps' College "The Missing Pictures and Sounds of Memory: A Celebration of Cambodian Film and Contemporary Classical Music". Garrison Theater, Scripps College (Claremont, CA)

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, presenting numerous masterclasses and performances at Pasadena City College (Westerbeck Recital Hall), CalPoly Pomona (Music Recital Hall), California State University - Long Beach (Daniel Recital Hall), and University of California - Riverside's "Outpost" concert series (Culver Center for the Arts)

with Brightwork Newmusic and as a solo artist, performing works by Tom Flaherty, Sean Friar, and William Kraft as part of the Hear Now Music Festival (Throop Hall, Pasadena & First Lutheran Church, Venice)

with PARTCH, two-evenings presented before capacity audiences at downtown Los Angeles' REDCAT Theater

with Brightwork Newmusic, presenting "Migrations", a season-ending concert presented by Tuesdays @ Monk Space

Percussion Chair for the Lansum International Music Festival, presenting numerous concerts, serving as a judge for various instrumental competitions, and coordinating all percussion activities

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, featured artists at the 2018 Summer Music Festival, presented by the department of music at the University of California, Santa Barbara

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing an evening concert at California State University, Dominguez Hills' University Theater

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing an evening concert featuring "Three-Minute Wonders" in collaboration with the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music's Composer's Guild. California State University, Long Beach.

featured solo performance at Chapman University's New Horizons concert series, presented by People Inside Electronics

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing works by Russel Steinberg and William Kraft. Boston Court, Pasadena, CA

performance of Chinary Ung's Spiral XIV (for piano, clarinet, and two percussion), in celebration of the composer's 75 birthday. Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, University of California, San Diego

with LA Philharmonic New Music Group, performing the music of Steve Reich at Walt Disney Concert Hall

with Lotus Flower New Music Project, performing the music of Chinary Ung at California State University - San Bernardino

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, performing the music of Erik Griswold and Brad Lubman with pianists Vicki Ray and Joanne Pierce-Martin as part of Piano Spheres

with Brightwork Newmusic, performance at Pomona College's annual Ussachevsky Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music

Performing music by Haydn and Osvaldo Golijov at with Pomona College Chamber Orchestra

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, performing at CalState Fullerton's 16th Annual New Music Festival, "To the Ends of the Earth"

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing at Monk Space in support of People Inside Electronics concert series

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing two evenings of music for Los Angeles' 2017 Hear Now Festival

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, presenting an album release concert at National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY)

with LA Philharmonic New Music Group, performing Lou Harrison's opera "Young Caesar"

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, performing album release event at University of Southern California's Cammilleri Hall (Brain & Creativity Institute)

with PARTCH, performing two evenings at downtown LA's REDCAT Theater

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, featured percussion artists at the 2017 Arcadia Music & Arts Symposium

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing an evening concert on Tuesdays @ Monk Space

premiere performance of composer Sean Heim's "e il naufragar m.e dolce in questo mare" in support of Danielle Struppa's inauguration as Chapman University's 13th President

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, performing at the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella event "Noon to Midnight". Including world premiere performance of Jeffrey Holmes' Ur, for percussion quartet

with Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, performing four new works by emerging composers as part of the LA Philharmonic Composer Program, co-directed by composers Andrew Norman and Sara Gibson

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing an evening recital at Harvey Mudd College

with LAPQ, produced HD video featuring Joseph Pereira's Mallet Quartet, originally commissioned by LAPQ in 2013

with LAPQ, produced HD video featuring Shaun Naidoo's the Year Before Yesterday, originally commissioned by LAPQ in 2013

with Brightwork Newmusic, evening concert presented by People Inside Electronics, Pasadena's Neighborhood Church

with pianist Genevieve Lee and cellist Maggie Parkins, performing Chinary Ung's Spiral I and Osvaldo Golijov's Mariel, Pomona College and University of California - Irvine

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing John Luthar Adams' Red Arc Blue Veil, presented by Pomona College's Ussachevsky Festival of Electro Acoustic Music

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing "Electrified!", an evening of electro acoustic music, presented by the music department of Harvey Mudd College, Pomona

with LAPQ, evening concert presented at El Camino College's Marsee Auditorium, featuring the music of Christopher Cerrone, Ellen Reid, Daniel Bjarnason, and Andrew McIntosh

with Brightwork Newmusic, ensemble-in-residence at Chapman University, performing an evening concert and providing reading/recording session for student composers

with Brightwork Newmusic, "Zodiacus" an evening concert presented by Synchromy, Los Angeles City College

with LAPQ, presents "Rhythms of Our Time" at the newly opened Musco Center, also serving as ensemble-in-residence for the Conservatory of Music, presenting a performance masterclass and career-design workshop for students

with percussionist Ken McGrath and pianists Joanne Pierce-Martin and Vicki Ray, performing the world premiere of Brad Lubman's Tangents at Disney Hall, presented by the LA Philharmonic

with LAPQ, featured artists at Butler University's ArtsFest 2016

with the LA Philharmonic's New Music Ensemble, performing 21C Liederabend, Op. LA presented as part of LAPA's Green Umbrella concert series, Disney Hall

with Brightwork Newmusic, performing Jason Heath's Wayana Songs presented by the Hear Now Music Festival and People Inside Electronics, Miles Memorial Playhouse, Santa Monica

with Brightwork Newmusic, evening concert featuring two world premieres by composers Elise Roy and Isaac Schankler, presented by Tuesday's @ Monk Space, Los Angeles

with pianists Joanne Pierce-Martin and Nadia Shpachenko, and percussionist Edward Atkatz, performing Andrew Norman's "Frank's House" at CalPoly Pomona

with PRISM Saxophone Quartet and the PARTCH Ensemble, performing Color Theory at the Kimmel Center for the Arts (Philadelphia), and Roulette Theater (Brooklyn, NY). Critically reviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Times

with LAPQ, performing the music of Kevin Volans, Ellen Reid, Daniel Bjarnason, and Matthew McBane, presented by the Carlsbad Music Festival. Critically reviewed by the San Diego Union Tribune

with Brightwork Newmusic, featured artists at the American Composer's Forum - LA Chapter showcase concert, "New Music from Los Angeles"

with LAPQ, collaboration with Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre presenting "Sophie & Charlie" at the King's Road Park, West Hollywood

with LAPQ, performing in Chapter 26 "Hades" of HOPSCOTCH: a mobile opera for 24 cars. Critically reviewed by the New Yorker, New York Times, VICE, San Francisco Classical Voice, Broadway World, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal.

with LAPQ, performed as featured artists at the 2015 Laguna Beach Music Festival along with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Our performance included the world-premeire of Chapman faculty Jeff Holmes octet for percussion+guitar quartets, entitled Ymir.

for Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), performed two American-premeires by Spanish composer Ramon Laskano on the program entitled "Laboratory of Chalks"

with the Chapman Percussion Ensemble, performing works by Steve Reich and George Hamilton Green on tour throughout the Bay Area and Fresno, CA

with PARTCH, I received a GRAMMY for "Best Classical Compendium" at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, and was received a nomination in the category for "Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance".

with LAPQ, performed "In-Between" an evening of music for percussion, electronics, and multi-media. Included the American premiere of "ASHE" for percussion quartet & electronics, the American premiere of "In-Between" for percussion trio & electronics, and the world premiere of "Luminous Self" for percussion quartet.

with LAPQ, performed an evening concert at Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)

with LAPQ, performed an evening concert as part of Ventura College's "Music Exposed" Series

with the Lotusflower New Music Project, performed an evening concert at the Asia Pacific Museum (Pasadena, CA)

with LAPQ, performed an evening concert at Zipper Concert Hall (at the Colburn School, Los Angeles) featuring the world-premerie performance of Andrew McIntosh's "I Hold the Lion's Paw"

with Brightwork Newmusic, performed an evening concert as part of Los Angeles' Hear Now Festival (Pasadena, CA), featuring the American premiere of Daniel Rothman's "Fool Wind"

with LAPQ, performing "Fits & Starts" a concert featuring the music of Thierry de Mey, David Lang, and Horatiu Radulescu presented by Jacaranda Music (Santa Monica, CA)

with LAPQ, performing William Albright's "Take That" on the steps of Disney Hall with presenting partners, wildUp

with PARTCH, presented several evenings of "LSD/Dementia", featuring the music of Harry Partch and Anne Lebaron at the REDCAT Theater (Los Angeles)

with Brightwork Newmusic, performed "Music & Text" an evening concert presented by Synchromy, a Los Angeles based composer-collective

with LAPQ, was ensemble-in-residence at Stanford University, where we collaborated with graduate composers, faculty, and performed an evening concert

with LAPQ, performed with marimba artists Naoko Takada and Gordon Stout that the 2014 Southern California International Marimba Competition, hosted by Chapman University's Conservatory of Music.

with PARTCH, performed "Boo Intrusions" at the REDCAT Theater (Los Angeles)

with iPalpiti Artists International, performed at SOKA Performing Arts Center (Orange County) and Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles)

with LAPQ, performed on the Fringe Music Series at Festival Mozaic (San Luis Obispo)

with Brightwork Newmusic, performed at Occidental College in support of Synchromy, a Los Angeles composer collective

as part of the AxS Festival (Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena), performed the world-premeire of Hand in Hand at the Edge of the Sky, by composer Matthew Brown

Terry performs with leading international percussion artists in Schallmachine Maximus, a performance installation at Agusta Raurica, the largest Roman amplitheater north of the Alps (Basel, Switzerland)

Terry performs with Ensemble XII at the Lucerne Festival, including the world premerie of Milica Djordjevic's Zapis

Terry performs with Adjunct Faculty member Dr. Justin DeHart in Riverside is Composing, an interactive series of workshops and performances with the graduate composition department at the University of California, Riverside.

Terry performs "delicately decisive marimba" at the Art of Elan Chamber Music Series (San Diego Museum of Art) alongside Adjunct Professor Dr. Justin DeHart

Terry's recorded performance released on David Rosenboom's In the Beginning (New World Records)

Terry presents a talk on his creative work, and with the Los Angeles Apercussion Quartet, at the 47th Los Angeles Composer Salon (Venice, CA)

Terry and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet receive corporate endorsements from leading percussion corporations, including: Yamaha Corporation of America, Sabian Cymbals, Innovative Percussion, Inc., REMO, Inc., and Black Swamp Percussion

Terry performs the U.S. premiere of Lenz in Moscow by German composer Rolh Riehm that "rattled sanity and soul" (L.A. Times) as part of the Monday Evening Concerts

Terry collaborated with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Steve Reich in a performance of his work Sextet (Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Terry performs with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet as part of the Southern California Percussion Ensemble Festival (Irvine Valley College)

Terry and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet perform at California State University, San Bernardino

Terry performs with the Grammy-nominated PARTCH ensemble at their annual REDCAT Theater sold-out concerts. Their performance, entitled Eroica Dances, was immediately recorded for future release on Bridge Records

Terry was an invited guest artist/judge at the 2013 Inland Percussion Festival at California State Univeristy, San Bernardino

Terry leads masterclasses on rhythm and percussion ensemble rehearsals at the Orange County School of the Arts summer wind ensemble camp

Terry "conveys rippling, lush textures" (L.A. Times) at a performance with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet in Long Beach Opera's U.S. premeire of The Paper Nautilus by Gavin Bryars.

Terry performs Sean Heim's Night Breath and the premiere of On Clear Mind by Taiwanese composer Chih-Chen Wei (Steinway Piano Gallery, Pasadena, CA)

Terry performs James Tenney's Cognate Patterns with the Eclipse Quartet at Beyond Baroque (Venice, CA)

Terry performs with the Los Angeles Master Chorale's season opening gala event, entitled the Organ Extravaganza

Terry performs with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet for the Fullerton Friends of Music

Terry performs with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet as part of the People Inside Electronics series (Atwater Village, CA)

Terry and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet are officially nominated in the 55th Grammy Awards in the categories of Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance, Best Surround Sound Album, and Producer of the Year (Classical)

Terry performs the premiere of composer Ben Hackbarth's percussion+electronics composition, Am I a Particle or a Wave? (UC, San Diego Conrad Prebys Music Center)

Terry's recorded performances are released on Lotusblume, CD featuring a performance of Night Breath by Chapman faculty Sean Heim (ein Klang Records, Vienna)

Los Angeles Percussion Quartet performs at the Ventura County Day of Percussion, also featuring the Chapman Percussion Ensemble

Invited guest judge, Southern California Percussion Ensemble Festival (Irvine Valley College)

Terry joins percussionists worldwide in performing (via web-streaming) Eric Satie's Vexations as part of Make Music New York

Terry perform the music of Sean Heim (Neak Ta), with violist Susan Ung as part of 'a Confluence of Cultures: Music from the Pacific Rim' at Chapman University.

Terry hosts internationally-acclaimed percussion soloist Johannes Fischer. Terry performs and co-presents lecture/demonstrations with Fischer (Chapman University)

Terry hosts and performs at the 4th Chapman Percussion Symposium. Performances by international artists, including the Hands On'Semble and Third Coast Percussion. Symposium is promoted on KPFK Radio

Terry presents a faculty recital of original compositions, featuring Chapman students and professional artists from Los Angeles.

Terry performs world premier of "Celestial Neighbors' by composer Adam Gilberti at UCLA's Popper Hall

Terry performs Sean Heim's "Neak Ta" with violist Susan Ung at the National Concert Hall (Taipei, Taiwan), and the Red Square Gallery (Hong Kong)

Terry directs and performs with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet in the greater Los Angeles area: 20th Central California Day of Percussion (sponsored by the Percussive Arts Society, hosted by CalState, Fresno), Morrison Artist Series (San Francisco State University), Ventura College, Sacramento State University, California State University - Hayward & Bakersfield, University of California - Santa Cruz, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Wooden Floor "True' (Irvine Barclay Theater)

Terry performs "Sur Incises" with Pierre Boulez at Walt Disney Concert Hall, celebrating the memory of Los Angeles Philharmonic director Ernest Fleischmann

Terry, along with Dance faculty Liz Maxwell, co-present "the Collaborative Spirit", an evening of music and dance (Chapman University)

Terry performs the music of Don Crockett with LA new music ensemble XTET at the University of Southern California

Terry performs the music of Tom Flaugherty and Osvaldo Golijov with cellist Roger Lebow at Pomona College

Terry performs with LA most renowned new-music percussionists the music of Alberto Ginastera (Estancia Dances & Cantata para America Magica) at Jacaranda Music (Santa Monica, CA)

Terry performs with PARTCH at the REDCAT Theater (Los Angeles)

Terry leads the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet in a recording session by major classical label Sono Luminus at Skywalker Sound studios (Marin, CA). Recording session features the music of Chapman faculty Sean Heim and Jeffrey Holmes. To be internationally released January 2012.

Terry performs with Chapman Percussion Ensemble during 2010 Interterm recruiting tour, including live on-air performance on KPFK Radio (Los Angeles)

Terry hosts and performs at the 3rd Chapman Percussion Symposium. Performances by international artists, including Swiss percussion artist Fritz Hauser. Symposium is promoted on KPFK Radio

Terry directs and performs with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet in the greater Los Angeles area: 3rd Chapman Percussion Symposium, University of Southern California, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), the California Institute of the Arts, ensemble-in-residence @ 2nd Los Angeles Composer Project, Records the music of David Johnson, Steve Forman, and Eric Guinivan (CalArts, summer 2010)

Terry is featured soloist and ensemble member at "Wilderness", composer Veronika Krausas' University of Southern California faculty recital.

Terry performs Chapman composition faculty Sean Heim's work 'Neak Ta" with violist Susan Ung, California Institute of the Arts

Terry performs a night of concert jazz music with the California Concert Artists (Sage Hill School, Newport, CA)

Terry is featured artist at the Fake Gallery (Hollywood, CA), performing the music of Veronika Krausas

Terry performs Pierre Boulez' 'Sur Incises' at the Kyoto Prize Symposium, University of San Diego

Terry performs alongside Chapman Percussion Ensemble, Fall and Spring concerts, 2010.

Host and Adjudicator for 2nd Southern California Percussion Ensemble Festival Solo Marimba Competition (Chapman University)

Adjudicator at Southern California Percussion Ensemble Festival, held at Orange Lutheran High School

Terry performs with the PARTCH Ensemble, REDCAT Theater (Los Angeles) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (as part of Music & Art Concert Series)

Terry performs with Sharp Three (jazz trio) at Lotus Festival (Echo Park, Los Angeles)

Terry arranges the music, rehearses, and coordinates Chapman Percussion Ensemble's performance as part of 2011 American Celebration (Chapman University)

Terry performs along with Chapman Percussion Ensemble as part of "Music at the Malloy" series (Leatherby Library, Chapman University)

Terry performs the music of Charles Ives, Jacaranda Music (Santa Monica, CA)

Terry performs the music of Stephen Hartke with the University of Southern California Thornton Percussion Ensemble

Terry coaches young percussionists in the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra as part of their fall retreat (Palomar Mountain, CA)

Adjudicator at Southern California Percussion Ensemble Festival, held at CalState Fullerton

Nick Terry performs with Argento Ensemble (New York) as part of the Monday Evening Concert Series (downtown Los Angeles).

Nick Terry performs and records Jeffrey Holmes' Nidhogg Trilogy, and participates in student-reading sessions with Ensemble Green (ensemble-in-residence at Chapman University)

Nick Terry performs as guest artist for University of Southern California's Primavera New Music Festival.

Host and Adjudicator for 1st Southern California Percussion Ensemble Festival Solo Marimba Competition (Chapman University)

Terry performs alongside Chapman Percussion Ensemble, Fall and Spring concerts, 2009.

Nick Terry records the Lucerne Festival Commissions and the Complete Works of Fritz Hauser with Ensemble XII and Steve Schick at Warren Studios (UC, San Diego).

Nick Terry performs solo alongside Chapman Percussion Ensemble in Interterm recruiting tour throughout Orange County and Las Vegas.

Nick Terry solo faculty recital at Chapman University. Performs a solo composition by Chapman faculty Jeffrey Holmes.

Nick Terry directs and performs with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet in the greater Los Angeles area: Woodbridge High School (Irvine), Chapman University, Renaissance Fine Arts Academy, Occidental College, Art Center College of Design (Pasadena), Music & Conversations (Los Angeles)

Nick Terry performs with Sharp Three (jazz trio) at 47th Annual Ani-Magic Conference in Palmdale, CA and 1st Annual Asian-American Festival (Cafe Metropol, Los Angeles)

Guest artist performance with Grammy-Winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird (University of Southern California)

Terry is featured soloist with Chapman University Choir (Winter Concert 2009)

Terry performs with PARTCH at International Book Fair (Guadalajara, Mexico)

Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra. Performances with Pierra Boulez, Ensemble Incontemporain, Fritz Hauser. Lucerne, Switzerland

PARTCH Ensemble. Performance at Jacaranda Music. Positive review by Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times.

World premier of Chinary Ung's Spiral XII with Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Also performed, Lou Harrison La Koro Sutra.

Terry performs alongside Chapman Percussion Ensemble, Spring 2008.

Nick Terry hosts the 2nd Chapman Percussion Symposium. Performances by international artists. Symposium is promoted on KPFK Radio, and is positively reviewed by California Chapter of Percussive Arts Society.