Learn with a Legend
Terry Anthony, a world-class saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist, performed, recorded, and toured worldwide with Frank Sinatra, Frank Jr. and Nancy, throughout four decades.
His credits include Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr. Dean Martin, Natalie Cole, Cher, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, and most of the generation’s musical royalty.
Now based in Fort Lauderdale, Terry brings his passion, experience, dedication and skill to a new generation of musicians through personalized private lessons
About Terry Anthony
With a career spanning decades and performances alongside the legends, Terry Anthony is a renown seasoned professional musician.
He is also a skilled and inspiring tutor.
Holding a bachelor’s in music education and a master’s in Clarinet from Berklee College of Music in Boston, his commitment to music education shines through individualized lessons and workshops, creating an inspiring musical environment for the Student, the Hobbyist, the Semi-Professional, and…You.
Terry Anthony, a world-class woodwind artist who performed with the icons of music, is now in his retirement phase.
And he wants to entrust, preserve and share the music that shaped his life.
He wants to teach it.
Terry lives in Fort Lauderdale
For motivated players of any age – especially those with a basic music background and a deep desire to grow – he offers a one-on-one customized approach to lessons in saxophone, clarinet, and flute.
His teaching style is one of warmth, expertise, and legacy.
The consultation is free.
The experience is priceless.
Terry toured North America with The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, played The Producers and Chorus Line for their highly successful runs, performed at major theaters in Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and London, UK.
He has performed concerts with the Houston Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Boston Symphony and Salt Lake Symphony and has played at jazz venues from the Blue Note jazz clubs in New York and Japan to Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in the United Kingdom.
Lessons
FOR EMERGING & ADVANCING PLAYERS
You don’t need years of experience to study with a master – you just need musical curiosity, focus, and a desire to grow.
Terry welcomes motivated students at all stages, from passionate beginners with a basic grasp of music to seasoned musicians looking to refine their sound.
Whether you’re building a foundation or sharpening your edge, you’ll get personalized, hands-on guidance to your goals – and your potential
Skill Levels
Versatile Lessons
Whether you’re picking up the sax for the first time, or you’ve got a few years under your belt, Terry offers custom-designed lessons, to meet you where you are – and take you further than you imagined. His individualized sessions are tailored to grow with you.
His students range from curious beginners to seasoned hobbyists and semi-pros who want to refine their sound, grow their technique, and feel at home in jazz, blues, show tunes and Latin...whatever music moves them.
If you’ve got the passion, he’s got the patience, the experience, and the roadmap. He’ll craft strategy sessions that grow with you.
Artistic Growth
Inspiring Creativity
“Music isn’t just about playing the right notes – it’s about discovering your voice, expressing what’s inside, and growing as a musician and a performer.
In every lesson, in every way, I work to spark creativity, build confidence, and help you tap into the joy that drew you to music in the first place. Whether you’re exploring jazz improvisation, shaping your tone, or chasing that soulful phrase, this is your space to grow, be inspired, and make the music your own.”
quote: Terry Anthony
Lesson Fees & Details
Your Place or Mine...?
Single Sessions Starting at:
Pricing for Travel within 15 miles from 33308
60 minutes: $95
30 minutes $60
You come to me
60 minutes: $75
30 minutes: $50
Packages and Discounted multi-sessions available. Contact us for details.
*Cancellation: Life happens.
Where We Begin
MUSICAL NOTATION
Time signatures. Reading skills, basic and advanced. All the fundamentals for a good foundation. This is especially empowering for the artist who plays by ear.
PROPER BREATHING, BODY AND HANDS POSTURE, LIPS AND TONGUE POSITION
Develop the proper breathing process to enable a signature sound. Definition of the embouchure; the placement of your mouth and facial muscles are controlled differently for each woodwind.
This is crucial for emerging players and suggested for artists who have relaxed into old habits.
TRAIN MUSICAL EAR AND RHYTHM
Learning how to listen... until you truly hear.
Acquire a discriminative ear to intervals and rhythm with clarity and build certainty, confidence of timing, and phrasing in every piece you play.
This is imperative for the beginner and invigorating as a refresher course.
PLAYING BY NOTE
Cultivate the skill of translating the note you hear in your head to your instrument – and then learn how to shape it, play with it, and make it your own.
TESTIMONIALS
"Terry Anthony, my friend and colleague, is one of the finest musicians I know. I am a guitarist having played on numerous
films, television shows, records, shows and other live engagements. I had the pleasure of spending over twenty years with Terry on staff for Frank Sinatra Jr., performing around the globe as well as recording. In addition, Terry spent decades as 'first call' woodwind performer in Boston playing with many well known music stars and for numerous musical productions."
Jim Fox
"Terry Anthony has been a musical associate of mine for many years. We played side by side in the Frank Sinatra orchestra for decades. His woodwind playing is of the highest caliber. Terry's teaching of saxophone, flute and clarinet has produced some of the finest performers in the country."
- Mike Smith, lead alto with Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Jr., Harry Connick, and Mark Tremonti.
Terry, what a treat and an honor to support your instructional musical site.
Having enjoyed your musical gift live on stage and in the recording studio, allow me to brag about your talent as a friend and as a recording producer.
My friend ship with you and Frank Sinatra Sr. (later Sinatra Jr.), has been a joy.
Over the years I have quietly picked the finest musicians for my studio dates.
I had the pleasure of producing, in some cases directing TV shoes, commercials etc with Paul Anka, Liza Minnelli, Bob Goulet, Bono of U2, Luciano Pavarotti, Frank Sinatra and Jr. etc, You were always among my selections, subject to your availability, as in the very successful musical production of Sinatra's double album Duets. (for which I still receive "royalties").
When Sinatra asked me to permanently become his production manager, I accepted.
It was that special! Over the years as we became closer and all his confidence in me became secure, I often did his show lineups, and often responded to his concerns about his pick of musicians. Sinatra, was world famous for his music and his choice of musicians. If you played for Frank, You were "The Top Of the Heap," Terry Anthony was that special! "The cream of the crop"!
Hank Cattaneo
