A native of Indiana, Terry received his Bachelor of Science in Music and Religion with an emphasis in organ performance from the University of Evansville. He also attended Harlaxton College of Grantham, England. Mr. Maddox received a full fellowship and assistantship from Loyola University of New Orleans, Louisiana, where he earned a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting. He is married to Rebecca Rasmussen Maddox, a former politician, a singer, jeweler, and artist.
During a span of twelve years of his career, Mr. Maddox served as an educator for three private Christian school systems in the position of Director of Fine and Performing Arts. He has directed the Honor Chorus for youth from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Lower Alabama with his wife, Rebecca, for nine years. For the past fifteen years, Mr. Maddox served as an Adjunct Professor of Spring Hill College’s Choral and Music Education programs, and conducts studio education programs of music instruction. In the spring of 2007 and again in March of 2009, Mr. Maddox prepared and led a large choral group to Carnegie Hall. The 2007 program was a presentation of Faure’s Requiem Mass. In 2009, with nearly 100 area residents performing or sharing in the experience, Mr. Maddox conducted John Rutter’s Requiem Mass which was performed as the featured evening program in a near capacity Isaac Stern Auditorium.
Mr. Maddox has led several “Choir Trips with Friends” to Europe, visiting and singing in Italy, Austria, France, and the Czech Republic. During Mr. Maddox’s career he has had the privilege and opportunity to work with regional and national artists, including Marcia Ball, Kermit Ruffins, Jeremy Davenport, Teresa Anderson, John Boutte, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Dr. Michael White, Paul Schaefer of NBC’s David Letterman Show, the Walter Wolfman Washington Trio, and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans, LA. In May 2017, Terry joined the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Minister of Music and Director of Fine Arts.