Jason Terry

Jason Terry

Assistant Professor of Music & Educational Innovation

College of Music & Performing Arts

DMA (Piano Performance), University of South Carolina; MM (Piano Performance), Baylor University; MM (Church Music), Baylor University; BA (Music), Missouri Southern State University

jason.terry@belmont.edu

Biography

Pianist and keyboardist Jason Terry has given performances throughout North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe as a soloist, band member, and collaborative pianist. His performances have been heard on multiple NPR stations, K-Pop recordings, and pop-culture videos. Recent performances include Carnegie Hall (New York), Théâtre de Nesle (Paris), and Steigenberger Hall (Alexandria).

Jason is currently on the Fulbright Specialist roster, which provides opportunities to travel around the globe as an educator & consultant for organizations and institutions. Additionally, he was a 2024 Fulbright Scholar and served as artist-in-residence for the Cairo Conservatoire. He continues to return to the world-renowned Interlochen Arts Camp as a piano faculty and serves as the primary piano instructor and curriculum creator for the Interlochen Online program.

He remains an enthusiast of arts advocacy, especially in matters of social and cultural diplomacy. Formerly a teaching-artist in the Middle East, Jason directs a non-profit, Arts in Motion, to continue fostering holistic arts training both domestically and internationally.

Aside from teaching and performing, he continues to collaborate in his research. For the past four years, has worked with multiple physical therapists and an orthopedic surgeon to create interdisciplinary resources for keyboardists to better understand PRMDs. He was co-awarded the Innovator of the Year national prize from the Physical Therapy Learning Institute for his co-development of The Physical Thera-Pianist, a collegiate course marketed to piano departments and individual instructors worldwide.

Dr. Jason Terry, a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, is on the faculty of the College of Music & Performing Arts at Belmont University (Nashville, TN). His responsibilities include teaching music courses and collaborating on innovative educational ideas for collegiate instruction. For more information on Jason, please visit JasonTerryPiano.com.