In about 1909 she returned to America, settling in New York.The New York Times reports her as a guest at a debutante lunch (5 January 1909), and as a chorus member in a benefit concert (27 February 1909). Vogue reports her taking the part of an Ancient Greek singer in a pageant (27 May 1909). Probably around this time she studied with a leading New York voice teacher, Frida Ashforth.Saerchinger (1919). This source specifies Ashforth as Wyman's teacher but does not say when. James Huneker called Ashforth the "doyenne of vocal teachers"; New York Times, 2 February 1919. By the following year, she had embarked on a concert career, in which she sang a mixture of folksongs of various origin to urban audiences. Stamler writes,
