Associate Adjunct Music Faculty

Background

Terence Mayhue is currently the Associate Adjunct Professor of Percussion at the University of Indianapolis and has taught at the university level for over two decades. Here at UIndy he teaches applied instruction, directs the Percussion Ensemble, and works with Outreach. An in-demand percussionist, clinician, and arranger throughout the Midwest, Terence works with many local high school programs and is the house percussionist at the Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre performing over 200 shows a year. Prior to moving to Indianapolis, Terence was the Director of Percussion and Jazz Studies at McKendree University where he taught all applied lessons in percussion, jazz, and commercial voice in addition to writing and arranging for the Concert and Commercial Percussion Ensemble, Marching Band, Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo.

Previous to McKendree, Terence served as the Head of Percussion Studies, Commercial Music Instructor, and General Lecturer at Eastern Illinois University for 10 years. There he wrote for and directed several groups such as the Concert and Commercial Percussion Ensembles, the Latin Rock Ensemble, and the Mid-West Funk Factory Drumline which performed with artists such as Kelly Rowland, Zoro, and Beyonce. Terence has also been on the faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Kaskaskia College, Rend Lake College, IUPUI, Marian University, and the EIU Continuing Education Dept. He is regularly booked throughout the Mid-West as a clinician, arranger, and performer ranging from orchestral to commercial music.

Terence has performed with artists such as 4-time Grammy award-winning B.J. Thomas, Motown legends The Contours, Broadway legend Mitzi Gaynor, Disney’s Toy Story 2 music writers Riders in the Sky, platinum-selling artist Robert Michaels, Irish tenor Anthony Kerns, Broadway mainstay Maureen McGovern, the “Tonight Show’s Doc Severinsen, Chicago Brass, and many others. Terence received his BM from Millkin University, MA from Eastern Illinois University, and has completed work towards his DMA at the University of Illinois. He lives here in Indianapolis with his wife Jeannie and children.