Rosa Terzian was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She began her musical studies on the violin and the piano at the age of six.
In 1992 she started viola lessons, at first with Mikis Michaelidis and later with Lutz Kuehne, with whom she completed her studies at “Sychrono Conservatory of Thessaloniki”, receiving First Price upon Graduation.
At the same time, she completed her piano and theoretical studies with Honors in 1999.
She also studied at various Master-classes with Stelios Kafantaris, Roland Vamos, Bruno Pasquier, Yosif Radionov, Isabel Villa, Ara Malikian, Vladimir Antonov, Paris Anastasiadis, Tassos Adamopoulos and Chara Seira.
In 2000, she attended the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Trossingen, Germany, where she studied with Prof. James Creitz.
She was a member of the Symphony Orchestra of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, with whom she appeared as a soloist in 2009.
Since 2002, she is a permanent member of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra and currently substitutes the position of Principal B’ in the Violas.
She is teaching Viola at the “New Conservatory of Thessaloniki”.