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Terre Roche is an internationally acclaimed professional musician, composer, arranger, vocalist, performer and teacher with a career spanning 35 years. She has extensive experience working with harmony singing, guitar playing ensemble and solo performance as a member of The Roches. As an experienced studio musician she has played and sung on many projects of diverse musical styles. For the last 15 years, Terre has been a dedicated music teacher.

Below is a list of selected highlights from Terre's CV

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Arts in Music, State University of New York (Empire State College) 1995.

PRIVATE STUDIES

• Garry Dial – Music Theory, Composition, Improvision
• Charlie Banacos – Chord Voicings, Jazz Harmony, Improvisation
• Meliset Abreu – Classical Guitar
• Sidiki Conde – West African Djembe Drum
• Robert Fripp – Guitar
• Woody Mann – Country Blues Guitar
• Alan Hanlon – Jazz Guitar
• Joe Scott - Singing

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• The New School for Social Research, Guitar Studies Center – Guitar, Folk Band Class (1995-2005)
• Puget Sound Guitar Workshop – C-A-G-E-D- Guitar Class, Advanced Songwriting (2003, 2005)
• Acoustic Sessions, NYC - Spontaneous Songwriting Workshop, 2003
• New York Shambhala Center – Spontaneous Songwriting (Working with Embarrassment) Workshop (2000)
• Battery Park City Parks Department – The Sunset Singing Circle, (2002 – 2010)
• Spontaneous Songwriting Workshop – SUNY @ Purchase, NY (2008)
• Extensive Private Teaching Practice – 1994-present

MAJOR CREATIVE PROJECTS

The Roches

Discography

• Maggie & Terre Roche
• Seductive Reasoning, Columbia (1975)
• The Roches
• The Roches, Warner Bros. (1979)
• Nurds, Warner Bros. (1980)
• Keep On Doing, Warner Bros. (1982)
• Another World, Warner Bros. (1985)
• No Trespassing, Real Live Records (1986); Rhino Records (1990)
• Speak, MCA (1989)
• A Dove, MCA (1992)
• We Three Kings, MCA (1990); re-release Rykodisc (1994)
• Will You Be My Friend?, Baby Boom Music (1994)
• Can We Go Home Now, Rykodisc (1995)
• The Collected Work of the Roches, Rhino Records (2003)
• Moonswept, 429 Records (2007)

Live Concerts (selected)

• Performances through the United States, Canada, and Europe, averaging 75 dates per year (1979 to present), including:
• Sidiki Conde & Tokounou, Symphony Space NYC (2009)
• Love in Hard Times; The Music of Paul Simon (2008)
• Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Town Hall, New York City (NPR’s “Mountain Stage”) (2007)
• Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (2007)
• The Concert Hall for NYSEC, New York City (2007)
• Finney Chapel, Oberlin, OH (2007)
• Moore Theatre, Seattle (2006)
• Royce Hall, Los Angeles (2006)
• Overture Center, Madison, WI (2006)
• Fitzerald Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota (2006)
• Bloomsbury Theatre, London (2005)
• Edinburgh Queens Hall, Scotland (2005)
• Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago (2002, 2005)
• Zankel Hall, New York City (with Meredith Monk) (2005)
• Town Hall, New York City (2005, 1993, 1989)
• Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA (1994, 2000)
• Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow (2000)
• Carnegie Hall, New York City (with Philip Glass) (1997)
• Carnegie Hall, New York City (1982)

Film and Television Music Composition:

• Crossing Delancey (1988)
• “Song City, U.S.A.,” Scholastic Productions (1989)
• Heaven Help Us (1985)
• “Tiny Toons” (1991)
• The Land Before Time (1994)

Television Appearances (selected):

• “Saturday Night Live” (1979)
• “Rock Goes To College” (BBC) (1981)
• “The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder” (1982)
• “Evening at the Improv” (1982)
• “Cambridge Folk Festival” (BBC) (1982)
• “The New Show” (singing with Paul Simon on “Hearts & Bones”) (1983)
• “Soundstage” (PBS) (1983)
• “Dick Cavett” (1985)
• “Old Gray Whistle Test” (BBC) (1979, 1985)
• “Oprah Winfrey Special” (1988)
• “The Tonight Show” (1985, 1990)
• “The Today Show” (1990)
• “Late Night With David Letterman” (1990, 1991)
• “Tiny Toons,” (Steven Spielberg, producer) (1991)
• “Tracey Takes on HBO” (starring Tracey Ullman) (1997)

Collaborative Recordings (selected):

• Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, (1973)
• Robert Fripp, Exposure (1980) (featured soloist)
• Philip Glass, Songs From Liquid Days (1986)
• John Moran, The Manson Family Opera, (1992) (featured soloist)
• Loudon Wainwright III, History (1992)
• Indigo Girls, Swamp Ophelia (1994), Rites of Passage (1989)
• Laura Nyro, Time and Love: The Music of Laura Nyro (1997)
• The Brian Woodbury Songbook, (2000) – featured soloist
• Sidiki Conde – Sidiki(2005)
• The Band, Endless Highway: Music of The Band (2007)

Honors (selected):

• Album of the Year, The New York Times, for The Roches (1979)
• Parents’ Choice Gold Award, for Will You Be My Friend? (1994)

Solo Works. (As a composer/singer/songwriter.)

Discography

• The Sound of a Tree Falling, Earth Rock Wreckerds(1997)

Performances:

• The Downtown Messiah, The Bottom Line, The Winter Garden, NYC – (2002-2004)
• Terre & Her Moodswings – The Bottom Line, NYC 1997
• Terre & Her Moodswings – McCarter Theatre, Princeton 1997

Musical Collaboration:

• “Us an’Them” (A Collection of National Anthems), Garry Dial & Terre Roche, (2008)

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