Emmet Sher

Guitarist Emmett Sher grew up in Staten Island, New York. He attended Laguardia High School where he first discovered and fell in love with music. After high school Emmett attended the Brubeck Institute Fellowship program, a highly selective gap year program focusing on jazz performance and composition. While at the Brubeck Institute Emmett received a YoungArts finalist award in jazz performance and composition, and attended the YoungArts Finalist week in Miami.

After the Brubeck Institute Emmett was awarded a full tuition scholarship to Oberlin Conservatory, where he graduated with a BM in jazz guitar. At Oberlin, Emmett was awarded the Wendell and Bettye Logan Prize in Studies. Emmett won second place in the Jarek Smietana Jazz Guitar competition in Krakow, Poland.

Emmett has accumulated lots of teaching experience over the years. He taught for the Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony as the sole guitar teacher for two summers, as well as private students via Oberlin, Virtu Academy, Music to Your Home, and his own private studio. Emmett recently finished a national U.S. tour playing in the pit orchestra for “The Cher Show”. He is currently based in Brooklyn where he performs often at local music venues such as Nublu, Bar Lunatico, and Ornithology, and teaches guitar students.