During her last year there, she was also a Jungstudentin at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Rostock, Germany, where she studied violin with Petru Munteanu.

She studied with Dorothy DeLay (teacher to several renowned soloists such as Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, and Midori Goto), Naoko Tanaka and Cho-Liang Lin.

After receiving her Bachelors and master's degrees, she received a Doctorate degree (Doctor of Musical Arts) from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where she coached violin and chamber music with Pamela Frank, Philip Setzer (violinist of the Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet), and Gilbert Kalish.

[5][6] With the Manhattan Symphonie she toured China, making her Asian debut in 2014 at the Beijing Poly Theater and Shanghai Oriental Art Center.

She has collaborated in performances of Johann Sebastian Bach's Chaconne with the New York City-based José Limón Dance Company.

[10] She often collaborates with contemporary composers and has premiered and/or made world premiere recordings of works by Kenneth Fuchs,[11] Cynthia Lee Wong, Jakub Ciupiński,[12] Michael White, Piotr Drożdżewski, Krzysztof Penderecki and Debra Kay Augustyn is a prize winner of music competitions that include first prizes at the Alexander and Buono International String Competition in New York City in 2009, Artist International Presentations in New York City in 2007, and Konkurs Bachowski, in Zielona Góra, Poland In 1999.

[14] In 2012, Augustyn recorded as part of Trio21 with Robert deMaine (principal cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic), cello, and Jeffrey Biegel, piano, The Runaway Bunny,[15] the contemporary children's classic by Emmy award winner, Glen Roven.

Written between 1802 and 1817, the 24 Caprices are considered among the most challenging and technically demanding works for the solo violin, and have inspired many prominent composers, including Chopin, Schumann, Berlioz, Brahms, Sarasate, Liszt, and Sibelius.

She is the first person to record all violin and piano works by the 19th century composer, Aleksander Zarzycki,[21] who was mainly known for his Mazurka in G Major, Op.