Terry Boyarsky Терри Боярская
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. 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 for the Arts Seminars “Artists as Educators” from 2004 - 2007. She has been listed in “Who’s Who” since 2000.
Terry has published articles in Seminars in Neurology, the Orff "Echo," the Journal of the Dalcroze Society of America, and Teaching Artist Journal. She 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, Bard College Conservatory of Music, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Terry is a Teaching Artist for Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio, the Kennedy Center's Ohio State-Based Collaborative Initiative, and Ohio Arts Council. She presents professional development workshops on arts integration and Dalcroze Eurhythmics nationally. She has taught children, disadvantaged youth, amateur adults, the learning disabled, educators, and conservatory students around the world. She sings with the Cleveland Orchestra Blossom Festival Chorus and Choral Arts Cleveland. Her newest passion is “Russian Duo,” singing and performing classical, ethnic and Russian music with Oleg Kruglyakov, a balalaika virtuoso from Siberia.