Terrie Baune is concertmaster of the Eureka Symphony and the North State Symphony, and co concertmaster of the Oakland Symphony. She is a member of the professional new-music ensemble Earplay, Music Director of the TBAM Festival in Trinidad, CA, and the Director of the Humboldt Chamber Music Workshop.
Terrie’s professional credits include four years as a member of the National Symphony of Washington DC and two years as a member of the Auckland Philharmonia of New Zealand, where she also performed with the Gabrielli Trio, a New Zealand National Ensemble. She has held concertmaster positions with the Fresno Philharmonic, the Santa Cruz County Symphony, and the Rohnert Park Symphony, and has performed as concertmaster with many other orchestras including the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, El Paso Opera, the Santa Rosa Symphony, and the Vallejo Symphony.
For over twenty years Terrie was concertmaster of The Women’s Philharmonic, during which time she participated in over a hundred premieres, made several recordings, including one as soloist in the Maddalena Lombardini Violin Concerto #5, and performed as soloist in the world premiere of Chen Yi’s Chinese Folk Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, a piece commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation and written for her and the WP. Well known for her work with living composers, Terrie has had solo pieces written for her by Libby Larsen, Pablo Ortiz, Richard Festinger, Ross Bauer, and many other composers.
Terrie graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree, having won the Oberlin Concerto Competition and Grand Prize at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. She attended summer programs in Taos, New Mexico and received a full fellowship to the Aspen Festival. She has taught violin, viola and chamber music as well as string pedagogy at Stanislaus State University and Sonoma State University, and does private teaching and chamber music coaching in Northern California.