graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory in 1953. Her subjects included piano, violin and conducting. She proceeded to study composition and orchestration with Hans Henkemans and electronic music with Gottfried Koenig at the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht. She has performed as a concert pianist and has led both children and adults groups in music improvisation. Her activities include conducting amateur and professional choirs and orchestras, producing music program series for radio, and lecturing and writing on music education, group improvisation, and the role of women in music. Her book Working with Modern Sound was published in 1978 by Toorts, Haarlem, the Netherlands.
She has also written and lectured about contemporary music at international forums and numerous conservatories and universities. Until 1988 she taught composition at the Conservatory of Zwolle.
She is a profilic composer, with well over 200 works to date. They include full orchestral, chamber and electronic works, church and choral music as well as childrens operas. Many of her compositions were commissioned by the Nederlands Ministery of Culture and various broadcasting networks in Germany and the Netherlands.
Tera de Marez Oyens has won several prizes in The Netherlands and abroad. In 1989 she was awarded the first prize in a competition for composers in Dublin.
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