Tere Heredía-Zorich

Program Coordinator

As a multidisciplinary artist, Tere Heredía-Zorich (she/they) is passionate about facilitating spaces that invite authentic creative expression & connection. She began piano at the age of 6 and violin at the age of 10, studying piano under Hania Dec, who trained at the Katowice Conservatory, throughout grade school. Eventually, they wanted to branch outside of the western classical training environment and pursued learning jazz on the piano and bluegrass on the violin. Throughout high school, they worked as a freelance church accompanist and became a 2nd violinist in the Mid-Columbia Symphony. They studied jazz for one year at Hofstra University, studying under David Lalama. She then returned to SE Washington and got an Associates in Arts at Columbia Basin Community College. They moved to Chicago to study Performance & Sound at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. 

While in Chicago, she trained in dramatic improvisation at iO, writing at Second City, and Meisner technique & Viewpoints at Black Box Acting. They became a troupe member for PlayMakers Laboratory as a composer and keyboardist, getting to develop a teaching artist practice through PlayMaker’s creative writing residencies in various Chicago School District schools. They also freelanced as a visual teaching artist, becoming a part of the 2020 teaching artist cohort for the Chicago Park District’s Young Cultural Stewards. Her love for dance took her from Latin partner dance to InterPlay, a somatic movement organization where she currently works as the liaison to emerging generations. She has a private piano studio, Open Heart Music Studio, where she teaches piano skills and music making, and with a friend is planning to expand to digital music education. They work with the Walla Walla Symphony as a program coordinator in charge of the Traveling Instrument Petting Zoo and The Lullaby Project, a Carnegie Hall education initiative.