Terrence Wilson
By Tim Smith
July 28, 2015
Terrence Wilson, a dynamic, affable pianist who has performed several
times with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since the mid-1990s, was
among tenants displaced by a three-alarm fire Saturday night at an
apartment building in Montclair, NJ.
The
fire broke out on the second floor and quickly spread, reaching
Wilson's apartment directly above on the fourth floor, where his piano
and music scores, not to mention all his other personal belongings, were
housed.
Wilson
left the building around 6 p.m. Saturday to walk to a restaurant for
some take-away. Returning about 45 minutes later, he smelled smoke and
spotted fire trucks.
"I saw the fire in the windows of my living room," he said.
The pianist has been allowed to return briefly to his apartment.
"It
didn't look good at all," he said. "Where there wasn't soot and broken
glass, there was water. It's pretty devastating. In the next couple of
days I'll have a chance to go back and make a more accurate assessment. I
did not have renter's insurance, regrettably. I discontinued it a
couple years ago, when I had to cut some expenses."
Baltimore
audiences got to experience Wilson's talents early in his career. He
was featured on the BSO's former "Live, Gifted and Black" series when he
was 18 in 1994, playing a Liszt concerto, and the next year performing
Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini."
The New
York-born pianist participated in some of the orchestra's Martin Luther
King tribute concerts, including one in 2002 that showcased his account
of Ravel's Piano Concerto.
In
2001, Wilson was soloist in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 on a BSO
subscription program led by Daniel Hege. He performed Gershwin's
"Rhapsody in Blue" with then music director Yuri Temirkanov in 2005,
the same year the pianist joined Temirkanov and the BSO for a concert
tour of Spain.
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