While growing up in Ithaca, New York, she attended many concerts at Cornell University and heard renowned musicians of that time such as flutists Julius Baker and Albert Tipton, pianist Gina Bachauer, violinist Nathan Milstein, tenor Jussi Björling, guitarist Andres Segovia, and the famed French pedagogue Nadia Boulanger.
When she was 12 she began studying with David Berman, Professor of Flute at Ithaca College (1954-1989), who was an extremely important foundational influence throughout her junior and senior high school years.
At his suggestion Buyse applied to study with Joseph Mariano at the Eastman School of Music, from which she graduated with distinction and a Performer’s Certificate in 1968.
Awarded a Fulbright grant to study in France, Buyse attended the Paris Conservatory, where she first had lessons with Gaston Crunelle and the following year with Jean-Pierre Rampal, whose summer master classes she attended for three summers in Nice at l’Académie Internationale d’Été.
Her master's monograph, The French Rococo Style Exemplified in Selected Chamber Works of Joseph Bodin Boismortier (1689-1755), was published in The Emporia State Research Studies in 1979.
[3] Buyse’s first professional orchestral position was with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra as solo piccolo and second flute.
[8] In 1993 Buyse decided to pursue a more active career as soloist and teacher, accepting a professorship at The University of Michigan.
Since 2005 she has served as flute coach for Orchestra of the Americas, which currently functions as OAcademy, an intensive online diploma program.
[5] Buyse has given recitals and masterclasses throughout the United States and in Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Chile, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.