Robert
Sheldon (b. Feb 3, 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 Alfred Music Publishing, 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,
and the International Assembly of Phi Beta Mu honored him with the
International Outstanding Bandmaster Award..
He has also been a twenty-three-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. .
