Violinist William Terwilliger has established an active and diverse career as a performer and teacher on four continents. With pianist Andrew Cooperstock as the Terwilliger-Cooperstock Duo, he performed over 30 concerts in seven Latin American countries on a 1993 Artistic Ambassador tour sponsored by the US Information Agency. The duo has also performed throughout the United States and in Europe on repeated tours, including concerts throughout France, England, Scotland, and Sweden. Recent appearances include a New York recital debut at Merkin Hall, performances at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Queensland, and concerts in London and Toronto. Their performances have been heard over NPR, the BBC, Radio France, as well as Latvian and Australian National Radio. Their CD recording of the Complete Works of Aaron Copland for Violin and Piano was recently released on the Azica label and was lauded by Strings magazine and American Record Guide. As a sought-after pedagogue, Mr. Terwilliger has given master classes and clinics at numerous institutions across the US as well as in France, Sweden, England, Latvia, Bolivia, Panama and Australia. He was Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Toledo and violinist with the acclaimed Toledo Trio for nine years, and in 1999 he was appointed to the faculty of the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Since 1991 he has been an Artist Faculty member of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. Mr. Terwilliger received his doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Zvi Zeitlin and Donald Weilerstein. While at Eastman, he was first violinist with the award-winning Augustine String Quartet, which coached with the Cleveland, Emerson, Tokyo and Juilliard quartets, and concertized extensively throughout the US and Canada. |