Teresa Fream, violin
Teresa Fream has established an international career as a chamber musician and orchestral musician. A graduate of Indiana University and student of the late Franco Gulli, she continued study at the North Carolina School of the Arts with Vartan Manoogian and Michigan State University with Walter Verdehr. She was a founding member of the Arioso String Quartet, which was sponsored by the North Carolina Arts Council to tour and perform throughout the southeast United States. In 1979 she joined the Thouvenel String Quartet, which was based in Texas and performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe. The Thouvenel Quartet championed and recorded the string quartets of Ernst Krenek, and his Eighth Quartet, his final quartet, was composed for them. In 1980-81 they performed the complete quartets of Krenek in a series of concerts at New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall, for which they were named Musical America’s Musicians of the Month.
From 1981 through 1991 Teresa was a member of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and was Principal Second Violin from 1988 – 91.
Ms. Fream is currently a member of the orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Artist Teacher at Roosevelt University. In addition, she is a member of Music of the Baroque and performs regularly with the Grant Park Symphony, Rembrandt Chamber Players, and Contemporary Chamber Players. She is a long standing member of the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra, is very active in the Chicago recording industry, and is still attempting to learn to play the theremin.