About Terence

Originally from Ghana, I immigrated to the U.S. when I was 2, spending the first chunk of my childhood in the suburbs outside of Atlanta. Although I had shown a lot of interest and a knack for music throughout my childhood, my first foray into making music in a structured setting came when I started playing the saxophone at the age of 11. I’ve had a passion for – dare I say, obsession with – music ever since. I sought out music through as many avenues as possible. I joined the choir and played in innumerable musical ensembles, and soon the pursuit of music as a career became inevitable. I studied saxophone in college but quickly became far more interested in opportunities to arrange and orchestrate. More opportunities arose during the pandemic both at my college and in the professional world, and I began to balance my work as a musician with my responsibilities as a full time student. I’ve been blessed to work under and alongside some ridiculously gifted artists (and friends), all with a diverse array of perspectives, musical vocabularies, and artistic goals.

Notable collaborators include Alex Lacamoire, Josh Groban, Idina Menzel, Michael R. Jackson, Tom Kitt, Adam Gwon, David Foster, Heather Christian, Sam Pinkleton, and Andrew Lippa, among many others. I’m extremely passionate about investing my time, love, and abilities into telling meaningful new stories, including but not limited to Andrew Lippa’s Love Somebody Now and Harveyland, Jacob Ryan Smith’s Shelter Me: An Original Rock Oratorio, Ian Yan and Patrick Swailes Caldwell’s Everything’s Perfect And Ted Wants To Die, Here We Are, Redwood, The Heart of Rock and Roll, A Strange Loop, White Girl in Danger, and Gavin Creel’s Walk on Through.

I feel that I was put on this earth to produce, arrange, orchestrate, and above all to collaborate with others, telling stories through music and engaging with people’s hearts and minds. As an artist, I’m interested in contributing to the cultural impact of music on our daily lives, innovating and expanding on the existing breadth of musical vocabulary, and pushing the limits of what we expect of music as a means of storytelling. My ultimate goal is to be a constant, reliable piece of my collaborators’ creative process – to be someone that makes every artist feel safe, loved, and emboldened to craft art that feels authentic and daring. I am humbled to wake up every day knowing I have been given the gifts and therefore the responsibility to spread joy through the music I create and the stories I help to tell. 

but you can call me T!

hey! my name's terence,