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Patrick Cerria is expanding and reimagining the role of music, and music educators, in school. He is the Director of Education Flow, a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation. Education Flow serves as a way to apply for grants and funding to further his innovative work. 

Patrick recently published/presented an academic study on the effectiveness of music based strategies on Autistic children with speech delays, and is now collaborating with a fellow music researcher on a larger study that will go deeper into that area. He also had a paper published in the international music research journal Le Rythme alongside 12 other researchers from around the world. Patrick’s book, Finding The Flow: How Dalcroze Eurythmics and A New Approach to Music Education Can Improve Public Schools, is currently on the syllabus for a graduate music education course at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where he is also a guest lecturer. His book was selected as a featured title for the SXSW EDU Conference bookstore in 2022, 2023 and 2024 in Austin, Texas. Patrick was recently asked to contribute a lecture to the Berklee College of Music Digital Learning Platform.

Balancing his commitment to education, Patrick works as the music teacher for a public county school district, teaching developmentally and emotionally diverse student populations. He recently received a grant to develop a curriculum that uses music to teach mathematical algorithms to at-risk students, and is currently implementing that curriculum in a high school math class.

Patrick’s passion for music education is rooted in his studies in Dalcroze Eurhythmics. He completed a three-year study in eurhythmics at The Juilliard School in Manhattan, and is currently in the next phase of his studies at The Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. 

Prior to his career in education, Patrick spent over ten years as a professional touring musician, concluding as the percussionist/instrumentalist for the band Fossil, which recorded two albums for Warner Brothers records and toured internationally. He and his wife, Laura, have been married for over twenty-five years.