Carole Terry’s career as a renowned performer and teacher of the organ and harpsichord have taken her to many cities and universities throughout the United States, as well as Europe and the Far East. Especially known for her performances and recordings of German Romantic music, she is also an expert on the physiology of keyboard performance, a field in which she is readying a major publication.

In 2006 she performed in the Westfield Center Conference in Victoria, B.C on the newly installed Wolff organ at Christ Church Cathedral as well as the Institute for Sacred Music at the University of Iowa. She has appeared at The Bamboo Organ Festival, Manila, Philippines, as well as The Attersee Barock Akademie, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, in Lübeck, Germany, and the Hermans Organ Festival in Italy. She adjudicated the prestigious 2000 International Musachino Organ Competition in Tokyo, Japan, and participated in various summer academies such as the International Summer School for Young Organists in Oundle, Great Britain and the Mount Royal College Organ Academy and International Summer School, Calgary, Canada.

In September 2004 she was the first American organist to perform in the organ concert hall of Perm, in the Russian Federation, having been in Kaliningrad the year before to adjudicate the Third Mikael Tariverdiev International Organ Competition.

In the United States has participated in such conferences and seminars as the San Anselmo Organ Festival, The Historical Organ in America, and the Oregon Bach Festival and the Montreat Festival of Worship and Music in North Carolina in addition to having been a featured recitalist at many conventions of the American Guild of Organists, including the July 2000 AGO Convention in Seattle.

As Resident Organist and Curator for the Seattle Symphony, from 2000 to 2003, she inaugurated the new C.B. Fisk organ in Seattle’s acclaimed Benaroya Hall, and played many solo concerti in addition to monumental works for organ and orchestra.

Her recordings include Brombaugh Organs of the Northwest and The Complete Organ Works of Johannes Brahms (based on the Henle edition) for the Musical Heritage label. As a harpsichordist she recorded works of Albright, Persichetti, Cowell, and Rorem for CRI, and baroque chamber music for Crystal Records (with violist Yizhak Schotten). Her most recent recording, Carole Terry in Schwerin, is a two-CD set of German romantic organ music recorded on the notable 1871 Ladegast organ at Schwerin Cathedral, Germany.

Carole Terry is Professor of Organ and Harpsichord at the University of Washington School of Music in Seattle.