Sharon Music Classes

Sharon Music Classes
12th avenue, Gaur City 2, Gaur City 2, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201009, India

Sharon Music Classes sits on the tree-lined corner of Maple and 8th in Westfield, an old red-brick storefront whose patched cedar door creaks in exactly the way a music school door should. Inside, a warm pine-finished reception counter greets visitors first; it always smells faintly of rosin and fresh coffee kept in an antique copper urn for waiting parents. Sun-faded concert posters from the last fifteen years wallpaper the small lobby, chronicling everything from student recitals at the town library to Sharon’s own guitar ensemble’s triumphant run at the state jazz festival in 2019. One poster even proudly displays a dorm-room photo of 2016 alumna Maya Chen, now touring arenas with her indie-pop quartet.

Past the lobby, the sounds split: left leads to the Piano Gallery, a row of climate-controlled practice cubicles equipped with Yamaha uprights whose keys have been worn silk-smooth by decades of young fingers. Each cubicle has its own skylight—an architectural gift from the previous tenant, a portrait studio—so beginners chase shadows of clouds while learning arpeggios. Right takes you down the “String Hall,” where ruby-toned cellos hang on wall racks like curated art; the acoustic ceiling panels in this room were custom-shaped to mimic curved violin f-holes, a bit of whimsy that somehow delivers crystalline clarity during group lessons.

Downstairs, the heart of Sharon Music Classes beats inside “The Jazz Cellar,” a brick-arched rehearsal studio lit by strings of Edison bulbs and furnished with mismatched Persian rugs rescued from local estate sales. A Hammond B3 sits proudly in the corner—Sharon’s personal inheritance from her late mentor, Boston legend Roy Montague—and a chalkboard wall is scrawled nightly with chord charts and Motown set lists. Thursday evenings, drums pulse through the floorboards and draw curious pedestrians who stop to watch silhouettes groove behind frosted transom windows.

Sharon herself teaches advanced composition and mentors senior students; the rest of the faculty—eight part-time musicians who still gig weekends—rotate through Suzuki violin, rock-band labs, and adult “bucket list” guitar group classes. Students range from three-year-olds to retired septuagenarians; everyone ends up on the same stage each June when the big garage door at the back of the building rolls up to create an open-air courtyard stage, hydrangeas framing anyone brave enough to step into the sunlight with an instrument.

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