Welcome to the Sherill Spruill Website!
Sherill
Spruill - Music
Teacher, Director of Choirs, Singer/Songwriter, Pianist, Music Minister,
Psalmist
Sherill
is a native New Yorker that has been serving in the music field for
the past thirty-seven (37) years. She
has performed with secular artists such as Billy Joel, Paul Simon, and Foreigner,
Marc Cohn, Don Henley, and Christian music artists such as Larnell Harris and
Ron Kenoly. Sherill was also the opening
act for the Pre-Grammy Awards at Radio City Music Hall. As a songwriter Sherill’s songs have been
re-recorded in Nashville, Tennessee and have been performed by the Conan
O’Brien Orchestra.
Sherill
has been a private music educator
in piano and vocal arts for the past twenty-seven (27) years and is currently a
choral teacher in the Freeport School District, whose choral groups sing a wide
variety of languages and genres from classical to gospel to a’capella jazz to
pop and have won numerous awards for ‘superior’ academic music excellence as
well as opened for the world-renown Radio City Rockettes and were musical
guests in the Philadelphia Choral Festival in 2012 and at Carnegie Hall in 2015. Sherill was nominated Grammy Music Association’s
“Teacher of the Year” by her students and received “Teacher of the Month” by
Dowling College and News12 in 2013.
Sherill
recently participated as recording
pianist on a Christmas project with the cast of “The Lion King” to be released
in November 2013. Sherill is also the
Psalmist and Music Minister at Long Island Family Church in Babylon New
York.
Sherill
and her husband Shelley have been
married for twenty-nine (29) years and have three (3) children. She is currently working on completing her
Doctoral degree (Ed.D) in Education Administration focusing on Ethnic Studies research. In spite all her past
and present accomplishments, she believes her calling to be a catalyst for
authentic academic transformation in a broken educational system is of
paramount importance. Her mission is to
creatively motivate and inspire all students to become lifetime learners with
the passion to create positive academic and social change in their generation.