THINGS FALL APART
                                                                 part 1 of 5

        I first began teaching piano after graduating from Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
    in 1988.  I enrolled in Brooklyn after attending the Hartt School of Music so as to
    focus more on learning and performing contemporary piano repertoire.  Brooklyn
    College had a receptive faculty to new ideas and an intriguing group of young
    composers. I was very much focused on performing new works and never planned
    to teach piano. However, out of necessity, I took my first teaching job at an
    established music studio in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The studio once catered to
    the surrounding Hassidic community and now found itself in a neighborhood
    occupied by a population predominantly from the West Indies. The studio was an
    oasis in a pretty tough neighborhood. My young students would describe the  
    obstacle course of dangers they had to navigate in order to reach the studio. They
    really wanted lessons and desire surpassed the danger. Being a recent graduate
    from music school I thought my direction was towards a performing career. Little
    did I know that this teaching would be the beginning of my own unraveling and
    plans. Once I found myself with children at the piano I realized that somewhere
    along the way I had lost a musical connection in myself and that the loss had
    something to do with how I learned piano as a kid.

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Group and Solo Piano Lessons
taught by
Sheri Bauer-Mayorga

East Chatham, NY
sheri@greenbowermusic.com

    Green Bower Music Studio

I've been a piano teacher and children's choral director for 20+ years and have been playing
piano for 40+!  I was a piano major at the Hartt School of Music and
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, studied piano privately in NYC and have a B.Mus from BCM.
In addition, I've studied Kodaly methodology at Westminster Choir College and at Hartt,
and song leading/score approach with composer-arranger extraordinaire, Alice Parker.
I currently sing, compose, record, and teach.
You can learn more about this at: Sheri Bauer-Mayorga.

Below is an article about the musical journey that informs my teaching. If you have any
questions about the methods and materials I use, this may answer some! -Sheri