“On drums, tabla, marimba, and vibes is percussionist Nicholas Terry, whose multidimensional prowess is sure to amaze and inspire any student of the percussive arts.” -John Coia (drumpro.com)

Exemplifying the model of contemporary total percussion, Nick Terry has achieved local and international acclaim, as a performer, educator, composer, and conductor of wildly diverse genres of music. Based in Los Angeles, Nick performs with many of Southern California’s eminent chamber ensembles, including Inauthentica, Ensemble Green, Eighteen Squared, and Partch, whose collective repertoire features many of the 20th and 21st centuries’ most cutting edge, exotic, and demanding scores.

In Switzerland, Nick was one of nine chosen from a world-wide search to perform in the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra. Now in his fifth year, he has collaborated closely with Pierre Boulez, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Eötvös, Sofia Gubaidulina, and members of the Ensemble Intercontemporian. Consequently, he was a founding member of the Lucerne Festival Percussion Group, an international ensemble of 12 virtuosi, whose annual commissioning projects feature many of the finest young composers, such as Dai Fujikura, Philippe Schoeller, Fritz Hauser, and Liza Lim.

Recent performances include the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Klangspuren Music Festival (Austria), Philharmonie Essen (Germany), Ojai Music Festival, Green Umbrella Concert Series, Monday Evening Concerts, Music & Conversations, Grand Performances, Stanford New Music Festival, and Los Angeles’ Microfest. He has worked with composers Gavin Bryars, Morton Subotnick, and James Tenney, and toured with the renowned pianist Roger Williams. On multiple occasions, Nick has performed and recorded with the California E.A.R. Unit, and can be heard on recordings from Capstone, New World, Innova, and Onigawara records.

On drumset, Nick performs with Sharp Three, (www.sharpthree.com), a trio fusing Asian soundscapes and Balkan rhythms, and sits in with local soul and rock musicians at Los Angeles’ famous nightclubs such as the Whisky a Go Go, Viper Room, and Brown Derby. As a student of North Indian, West African, Afro-Cuban, and Arabic percussion, he synthesizes unique rhythmic concepts for his use in improvisation and music education.