In addition to her singing credits, Teryn is an accomplished instrumentalist on the 55-stringed Ukrainian bandura and is actively engaged in the performance and study of Ukrainian folk music. She currently serves as Concertmaster of the Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North America, as well as Artistic Director of the New York School of Bandura. As a singer-bandurist, she's performed in various esteemed concert halls and universities across the U.S and Canada over the past ten years. Teryn privately teaches bandura and voice lessons, and has been invited to perform and instruct at several summer bandura workshops since 2014. 

Since the most recent escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022, she has taken part in dozens of benefit concerts for humanitarian aid. Her current artistic mission includes using her musicianship to raise awareness of the beauty and versatility of Ukrainian music. Bandura for the Future came to fruition through Teryn's efforts to set up multiple fundraising private and public concerts throughout the Tri-State area of the U.S.. This project is in partnership with Ukraine Matters, a non-profit organization in California. The structure of the project is simple: to set up private and public fundraising concerts for medical hospitals and medical battalions in Ukraine. Teryn recently completed her first set of fundraising concerts in New York and California, where Bandura for the Future was able to fundraise over 20,000$ for UNBROKEN and SuperHumans, two rehabilitation centers in Lviv, Ukraine. She was then able to go to Ukraine for three weeks in May to connect with the incredible patients and doctors of these facilities and create connections with other hospitals like Ohmadyt in Kyiv, where she performed for a group of young patients. She plans to continue her work with Bandura for the Future and Ukraine Matters for the duration of the war and reconstruction of Ukraine. 

While growing up in the diaspora, she also had the opportunity to take Ukrainian Dance lessons and workshops for 14 years under the tutelage of esteemed choreographer Orlando Pagan (Dance Theater of Harlem). Her folk and ballet training fostered her interests in combining movement and music on stage. Movement and dance continue to be an integral part of Teryn’s identity as an artist.Teryn performed for two seasons with The Ohio Light Opera (OLO), first as a chorus member and dancer in 2019, and then "Luisa" in The Fantasticks during their 2021 season. Before the pandemic in 2020, she was hired to sing the role of "Fiametta" in OLO’s production of The Gondoliers, and "Louise" in Carousel, in which she would have performed the challenging “Dream Ballet” sequence. 

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In 2019, she sang in Hartford Opera Theater’s 10th annual New in November Concert, a festival dedicated to performing contemporary operas by living composers. That same year, she was a featured artist in the Ukrainian Art Song Project in Toronto, Canada. Teryn continues to program lesser-known Ukrainian composers such as Kyrylo Stetsenko, Stephania Turkewich, and Volodymyr Volynskyj. 

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Originally from Connecticut, she began studying voice at the Hartt School of Music and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Connecticut. She was selected for the UConn Honors Recital all four years of her undergraduate program. Her work at the University of Connecticut culminated in 2018 when she was a winner of the Concerto & Aria Competition. That same year, she attended the SongFest Program in Los Angeles as a Young Artist. 

Teryn recently earned her Masters Degree from the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program, where she studied with Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Kayo Iwama, Erika Switzer, and Stephanie Blythe.