Terry Boyarsky
of Duo Balalaika
Terry
Terry Boyarsky, pianist, is a movement specialist, singer, and ethnomusicologist who believes that every person is musical. Her search for musical collaboration has led her into chamber music, choral singing, folk dance, coaching, accompanying dance, and creating ceremony. Terry has collaborated with singers and dancers across the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland, and Venezuela.
Terry holds a BA in experimental psychology from Reed College, a BM in Eurhythmics from Cleveland Institute of Music, and an MA in Ethnomusicology from Kent State University. Her piano teachers include Fred Rothchild, Rebecca Penneys, Jeaneane Dowis, James Tannenbaum, and coaching with Vitya Vronsky Babin. She has further training from the Dalcroze School in New York City, two levels of Orff Schulwerk, and was one of sixteen Ohio artists selected to participate in the Kennedy Center’s Ohio State-Based Collaborative Initiative “Artists as Educators” seminars from 2004-2007.
n 2022 Terry received 12 hours of expert-led training from Lifetime Arts, the national leader in creative aging program development, as part of the Ohio Arts Council's Ohio Intensive Creative Aging Training Initiative to offer skills-based, sequential, and experiential arts activities for older adults. She is also certified by the National Center for Creative Aging.
Terry has taught and created events for institutions such as the Dalcroze Society of America, American Orff-Schulwerk Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, the Cleveland Institute of Music, University of Hawaii, Rowe Center in Massachusetts, Kasetsat University in Bangkok, Thailand, Los Hipocampitos in Carrizal, Venezuela, Bard College Conservatory of Music, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Terry worked with the Center for Arts-Inspired Learning for nearly two decades. Currently she is on the Ohio Teaching Artist Roster and is a mentor for artists. She has published articles in the Orff Echo, the American Dalcroze Journal, Seminars in Neurology, and Teaching Artist Journal. She presents professional development workshops on arts integration and Dalcroze Eurhythmics nationally. She has taught children, disadvantaged youth, amateur adults, handicapped and learning disabled, refugees, educators, actors, professional musicians, and conservatory students around the world. For almost two decades Terry sang with the Cleveland Orchestra Blossom Festival Chorus and still sings with Choral Arts Cleveland. Her solo piano program “Classical Expressions of the Folk Tradition” has been received with great acclaim.
Terry has taught at the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival since 2019. Currently she teaches a course in Russian Song for Case Western Reserve University - a theoretical and practual ethnomusicological journey. She has been performing with Siberian balalaika virtuoso Oleg Kruglyakov as “Duo Balalaika” since 2007.
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