Cheryl's Background
As a child, Cheryl picked at the family piano and listened in on her father's Barber
Shop Quartet rehearsals. She started her first formal music lessons in third grade
on flute at her local public elementary school, changing later to violin. She
played that instrument into her teens, participating with the high school orchestra and
revisited the instrument again in college.
When she was 13, her mother decided to take lessons at the local adult school
and brought home a steel string guitar. Cheryl picked up that instrument, too,
eventually taking guitar lessons, first for folk guitar and then classical.
During high school, she applied her music skills as a local folk singer
and song writer.
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After marrying, she pursued a career in the insurance industry. But the call to music
continued, so in the early 1990's she started Carriage House Chorus, a small volunteer
a cappella choir in her community. After a few years with the chorus, she returned
to college to finish her Bachelor's degree in music at Montclair State University where she
studied music composition with John Girt and guitar with Dennis Cinelli.
In addition to guitar performance and her various music projects, she has been
contracted by Pearson Education to do keyboard arrangements of songs
and also to model her hands (chord positions on the guitar) for one of their music textbooks.
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| Yes, that's a green monkey
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Cheryl launched Foxglove Music Press, LLC in December 2001 and continues to produce
a variety of music works. She and Kindergarten teacher, Deborah Morse Scala,
co-produce the SeaNotes Series which is distributed by Foxglove Music Press and
CDBaby. She has worked with other lyricists, Kent LaRue and K.C. Gingras, on the jazz songs.
She also has the pleasure of teaching classical guitar and music
theory to very talented students at Calderone School of Music
in East Hanover, NJ.
