Terry Alvord, Level III Director

Terry Alvord,  mezzo soprano and conductor, has led the San Francisco Symphony Chorus in rehearsals of Brahms’ Requiem and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, and has conducted the San Francisco Conservatory’s chamber vocal ensemble, assisting Maestro Ragnar Bohlin. She has also been one of four assistant conductors for the San Francisco Symphony’s Community of Music Makers “Sing Out Davies” program since its inception in 2011 through 2016.
 Ms. Alvord was a featured conductor in Sarteano, Italy from 2015-2017.   She was the interim artistic director for Resound Ensemble, a 50 member, mixed voice choir based in San Francisco for the 2015-2016 season and was music director at Trinity United Methodist Church in Berkeley for almost 20 years.

Recently, Ms. Alvord prepared choristers for "The Shining",  produced by Opera Parallel  and for a production of the opera, Prospero's Island by Allen Shearer and Claudia Stevens in collaboration with Ninth Planet.

In addition to conducting, Ms. Alvord is an active soloist and choral singer. She has appeared as soloist in James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross with the Berkeley Symphony and with many other groups in performances of Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Bach’s Magnificat. Ms. Alvord has sung with many Bay Area opera companies in roles such as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Siebel in Faust, and Hansel in Hansel and Gretel. She has been a professional member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus since 2000, and has also sung with San Francisco Opera Chorus and Philharmonia Baroque Chorale.