Terry Nigrelli is a trombone player, keyboard player, trombone teacher, guest conductor, webmaster/editor and music education technology consultant .
Terry holds a BS in Music from Manhattan School of Music and a Masters Degree from The Juilliard School.
He earned additional accreditation at Dowling College in Music Education and at SUNY Stony Brook in Music Technology and Education Administration.
Terry attended the Yale Summer Chamber Music Festival in 1979 and The Aspen Music Festival in 1980 and 1981.

Education:

Terry Nigrelli held the position of Director of Cultural Arts for the Bay Shore School District (Bay Shore, NY) from 2000 to 2017.
He began teaching Band, Jazz Ensemble and Music Theory at Bay Shore in 1986.
Terry was selected by Apple Inc. as an Apple Distinguished Educator - Class of 2007
Web Editor for NYSSMA (New York State School Music Association) 2006 to present
Former Member and Chair of The NYSSMA Technology in Music Education Committee
Technology Director/Web Editor - CAS Long Island (Council of Administrators and Supervisors) ESSAA Delegate (2011 to present)
Webmaster - The Jazz Loft Stony Brook, NY (2018 to present)
Assistant Conductor - The Symphonic Band of Bay Shore/Brightwaters (2000 to present)
Past President of NYSCAME/Suffolk (New York State Council of Administrators of Music Education/Suffolk Chapter)
Past President of SCMEA (Suffolk County Music Educators’ Association)
Adjunct Faculty - Five Towns College - Huntington, NY

Musician:

Broadway Pit Orchestra Sub for “Funny Girl” National Tour Pit Orchestra 2024, “The Tap Dance Kid”, “Ragtime”, “Bob Fosse's Big Deal”
Performed with: Mark Tremonti, Michael Feinstein, Marvin Hamlisch, Billy Joel, Al Martino, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Don Most, Slide Hampton’s “World of Trombones”
Member of The Leon Petruzzi Jazz Orchestra
Member of NY Shining Star Tribute
Member of The Sound Brass Quintet
Musician for Nafshenu Orchestras
Member of Local 802 AFofM - (1981 to present)
Perfoms with The Jazz Loft Big Band, The Atlantic Wind Symphony, The Northport Symphony Orchestra

Teachers:

Michael Canipe - Long Island Syphony
Dennis Wilson - The Count Basie Orchestra, University of Michigan
Edward Herman - New York Philharmonic
John Swallow - NYC Ballet, New York Brass Quintet
Per Brevig - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Glenn Dodson - Philadelphia Orchestra
Ronald Borrer - NYC Ballet, American Brass Quintet
Vincent Penzarella - New York Phlharmonic