Terrisa Ziek

Terrisa Ziek (Tess) has been a member of the music faculty at Emporia State University since 1997, where she teaches the Horn Studio and is Coordinator of Music Education. Her classroom specialties include Brass Methods, Foundations of Music Education, Integrating Music in the Elementary Classroom, and Graduate Music Bibliography. Ms. Ziek completed a Master of Library Science (MLS) at ESU’s School of Library and Information Management in 2018.

Upon completion of a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, with applied areas of study in horn and cello, Terrisa served as an Elementary Music Specialist with the Derry Area School District (PA) for seven years. Terrisa performed with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra (PA) as a cellist from 1982 to 1995. After moving to Kansas, she completed her Master of Music from Emporia State University, with applied horn study at the University of Kansas.

Terrisa maintains an active performance schedule, both as a soloist and ensemble performer. She is a member of the Mid-America Woodwind Quintet, Flint Hills Brass Quintet and has performed in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico and China. Principal horn of the Emporia Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Ziek also subs with the Topeka Symphony. Most recently, she served as Solo and First Tenor Horn with the Free State Brass Band, a British-style brass band based in Lawrence, Kansas.

Terrisa has studied horn with Jack Scandrett (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), David Bushouse (University of Kansas), and the late Louis Stout (University of Michigan). Her students have gone on to become successful music educators, performers, music therapists, and college administrators.

A member of the International Horn Society, Ms. Ziek served for 17 years as the organization's Kansas Representative for the Mid-South Region. Terrisa is a Conn Selmer Artist and performs on the Conn 6DHorn.