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Robert Sheldon
Biography
Robert Sheldon (Born 3 February, 1954) has taught instrumental music in the Florida and Illinois public schools, and has served on the faculty at Florida State University where he taught conducting and instrumental music education classes, and directed the university bands. As Concert Band Editor for the Alfred Publishing Company, he maintains an active composition and conducting schedule, and regularly accepts commissions for new works. Sheldon received the Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Miami and the Master of Fine Arts in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Florida.
An internationally recognized clinician, Sheldon has conducted numerous Regional and All-State Honor Bands throughout the United States and abroad, is Conductor of the Prairie Wind Ensemble in residence at Illinois Central College, and teaches Composition at Bradley University. He holds membership in several organizations that promote music and music education. The American School Band Directors Association has honored him with the Volkwein Award for composition and the Stanbury Award for teaching. He has also been a twenty-one-time recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publisher's Standard Award for his compositions in the concert band repertoire. His compositions have been recorded and released on compact discs including, Images: The Music of Robert Sheldon, and Infinite Horizons: The Music of Robert Sheldon, as well as numerous other recordings. Mr. Sheldon has been the topic of articles published in The Instrumentalist, Teaching Music and School Band and Orchestra Magazine, and is one of eleven American wind band composers featured in Volume I of Composers on Composing Music for Band. He was honored by the International Assembly of Phi Beta Mu in 1990 as being the International Outstanding Bandmaster of the year.
Works for Winds
- American Hymntune, An
- Appalachian Legacy
- Appalachian Morning
- Armenian Anthem
- Art in the Park
- As a Wind from the North
- An Australian Sea Ballad
- Awakened Like the Morn
- Barrier Reef
- Bayside Portrait, A
- Bellefonte Overture
- Bermuda Triangle, The
- Beyond the Higher Skies
- Big Brass on Patrol
- Blaze of Glory
- Bounty Hunter from "Advent Rising"
- Bright Auroral Skies
- Bristol Bay Legend
- Brule River Celebration
- Cape Fear Chronicles
- Carol of Two Mangers, A
- Cellular Symphony
- Century Point
- Chanteys
- Charleston Harbor Celebration
- Chiaroscuro: Symphonic Dances in Shades of Darkness and Light
- Choreography
- Christmas Couplet, A
- Christmastimes Three
- Coldwater Creek
- Commemoration
- Conundrum
- Corsairs Landing, The
- Crest of Nobility
- Crossings, The
- Danse Celestiale
- Divertimento
- Dorian Dreamscape
- Eagle Mountain Overture
- El Rey de Fransia
- Falcon Lake Overture
- Fall River Overture
- Fanfare and Intermezzo
- Fantasy on an Early American Marching Tune
- Final Voyage, The
- Flight of the Piasa
- Four Winds
- Garden of the Black Rose
- Gently Touch the Sky
- Ghost Fleet
- Golden Panther March
- "Halo Suite" from Video Games Live
- Hill Country Holiday
- Holiday Sleigh Ride
- Iberian Escapades: The Villas of Boca Raton
- Images (Sheldon)
- Infinite Horizons
- In the Center Ring
- In the Shining of the Stars
- Integrity
- In This Quiet Place
- Intrada for Winds
- Irish Air, An
- Irish Ballade, An
- Joyful Journey, A
- Korobochka
- Lantern in the Window, A
- Legend of Starved Rock
- Let Evening Come
- Lindbergh Variations
- Longford Legend, A
- Lords of Greenwich, The
- Lost Colony
- Lost in Mammoth Cave
- Lydian Lullaby
- Manatee Lyric Overture
- Maqamat
- March Ceremonial
- March of the Majestics
- March Mixolydian
- Mark of Triumph
- Message on the Rock, The
- Metroplex: Three Postcards from Manhattan
- Monster Under the Bed, The
- Moravian Folk Rhapsody
- Morning Mist (2012)
- Most Wonderful Christmas, A
- Mystery of Duffy's Cut, The
- Mystic Journey
- Noel Francais
- Northwest Rising
- Ocean Ridge Rhapsody
- Of Kindred Spirit
- Once the Man
- One Thousand Cranes
- Palimpsest
- Paragon
- Patriotic Salute
- Patriotic Snippets
- Pevensey Castle
- Phantom of Dark Hollow, The
- Phrygian Phantasy
- Pioneer's Passage, The
- Pop Culture
- Praeludium and Dance
- Prairie Portrait, A
- Prairiescape
- Prelude on an Old English Hymn
- Pride of the Grenadiers
- Quixotic Episode
- Red Rock Canyon
- Requiem to a Land Forgotten
- Ritmico!
- River Trail Expedition
- Rock Island Trail
- Sandcastle Sketches
- Savannah River Rhapsody
- Scandinavian Folk Tale, A
- Scottish Ballade, A
- Shenandoah
- Siege of Harlech Castle, The
- Silver Spring Soliloquy
- Simple Celebration, A
- Southwest Saga
- Spirit Lake Overture
- Spirit of Killian Hill, The
- Storm Chaser March
- Storybrook Mountain
- Sugar Creek Overture
- Swords of Stavanger, The
- Symphonic Narrative, A
- Synergies
- Tales of Dundee
- There Will Come Soft Rains
- Three Carols for a Celebration
- Three Georgian Vignettes
- Three Miniatures for Winds and Percussion
- Timberline Overture
- To Conquer the Skies
- Variants on a Union Hymn
- Velocity
- Visions of Flight
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Wallaby Walkabout
- Welsh Ayres and Dances
- West Highlands Sojourn
- Willow Grove
- Winds of Morocco
References
- Robert Sheldon - Official Website
- Camphouse, Mark, editor. (2002) Composers on Composing for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 295–321.
