After growing up in rural Nebraska, Erin Bauer attended Colorado College, earning undergraduate degrees in Music (Piano) and Physics, with minors in Mathematics and Renaissance Studies.
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While in college, Dr. Bauer participated in multiple performance activities, including solo piano recitals, collaborative opportunities, jazz and concert bands, musical theater experiences, dance performances, and the Bowed Piano Ensemble, an internationally recognized group of ten student, staff, and faculty musicians creating sound directly on the strings of a single grand piano. While with the Bowed Piano Ensemble, Dr. Bauer toured throughout the United States and Europe and participated on the 2007 recording of The Deep Spaces (New Albion Na132). During this time, Dr. Bauer also worked at the Colorado Springs Conservatory, teaching piano and theory classes, piano lessons, and serving as accompanist, vocal coach, and rehearsal pianist.
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In addition to performance opportunities and musical instruction, Dr. Bauer spent time in college tutoring local elementary and secondary low-income students in math and reading and tutoring college students in mathematics and physics. During the summers, Dr. Bauer worked at Interlochen Center for the Arts and taught migrant school in Gering, Nebraska for the children of local, migrant farmworkers. While in college, Dr. Bauer also worked through the Office of Residential Life, served as Campus Campaign Manager for Teach For America, and served as co-chair for the Great Performers and Ideas Leisure Program, managing agents and contracts, hospitality, advertisement, and budgeting to bring a series of national performers to campus.
After graduating from Colorado College, Dr. Bauer joined Teach For America. Moving to Rio Grande City, Texas, a rural community situated on the border of Mexico, she spent the next three years teaching eighth-grade mathematics at Ringgold Middle School. In 2008, Dr. Bauer moved to Southern California to pursue graduate studies in Musicology at Claremont Graduate University. While completing her masters and doctoral degrees, she continued teaching classes in math, physics, and music full-time at the secondary level, first at Edgewood Middle School, and continuing at Edgewood High School, an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School in West Covina, California, that graduated its first cohort of seniors in 2014.
After completing her Ph.D. and teaching courses at Western Nebraska
Community College in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and Mt. San Antonio College in Southern California, Dr. Bauer moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, in fall of 2015 to
take a position as Director of Instrumental Music at Laramie County Community College, where she taught introductory courses in music history, music theory, music technology. She also directed the Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble.
Dr. Bauer moved to the Madison, Wisconsin, area in fall of 2018 to take a
position as Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. At UW-W, she taught the music history sequence, general education offerings in U.S. American popular musics, and upper-level electives in ethno/musicology. Dr. Bauer also taught private piano lessons in the Madison area. She moved to the Columbus, Ohio, area in fall of 2022 to take a position as Chair of the Music Department and Associate Professor of Musicology at Muskingum University. She lives with her husband, Reed, young son, a pugapoo named Bowie, and a beagle mix named Bella.
Community College in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and Mt. San Antonio College in Southern California, Dr. Bauer moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, in fall of 2015 to
take a position as Director of Instrumental Music at Laramie County Community College, where she taught introductory courses in music history, music theory, music technology. She also directed the Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble.
Dr. Bauer moved to the Madison, Wisconsin, area in fall of 2018 to take a
position as Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. At UW-W, she taught the music history sequence, general education offerings in U.S. American popular musics, and upper-level electives in ethno/musicology. Dr. Bauer also taught private piano lessons in the Madison area. She moved to the Columbus, Ohio, area in fall of 2022 to take a position as Chair of the Music Department and Associate Professor of Musicology at Muskingum University. She lives with her husband, Reed, young son, a pugapoo named Bowie, and a beagle mix named Bella.