In 1977, after finishing graduate school at the University of Colorado, Teresa Radomski packed up a U-Haul and drove across the country to her first college teaching job in Winston Salem, NC. A gifted soprano with sound pedagogical training from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Colorado at Boulder, Terry started on that cross-country drive, taking the first step in what turned out to be a distinguished 44-year long career at Wake Forest.

As a performer, her solo recitals and ensemble performances are remarkable for their wide range of styles, from the Medieval era to recently composed works. In addition to notable performances at Carnegie Recital Hall and various venues in Europe and across the United States, there were countless recitals in Brendle Recital Hall, demonstrating to her devoted students and an admiring public what can happen when you combine excellent diction and vocal technique with natural musicianship and a communicative flair. Terry is one of those rare singers who deliver a sung line of text in virtually any language with such commitment and intention that we can tell the essence of what is being sung without having to check the translation. Her recitals on campus were always a special event.

As a teacher, she demanded high standards from her students and firmly but lovingly guided them along the way to achieve those standards. Several of her students have gone on to distinguished careers as performers and teachers themselves. Legions of other grateful students who went on to careers outside of music have had their lives immeasurably enriched by exploring the mysteries of how to produce a beautiful melody and how to express a line of sung text. Her own fascination for the physical process of singing led her to study the physiology of vocal production at the Center for Voice Disorders at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, where she received a fellowship in the biomechanics of the singing voice in 1992.