Robert Sheldon

Robert Sheldon

Biography

Robert Sheldon (b. 3 February 1954, Chester, Penn.) 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

• An American Hymntune (as arranger) (2004)
• Appalachian Legacy (1995)
• Appalachian Morning (2008)
• Armenian Anthem
• Art in the Park (2008)
• As a Wind from the North (2006)
• As Twilight Falls (2011)
• An Australian Sea Ballad (2011)
• Awakened Like the Morn
• Barrier Reef
• Bayside Portrait, A
• Bellefonte Overture
• Bermuda Triangle, The
• Beyond the Higher Skies (1999)
• Beyond the Riverbend (2013)
• Big Brass on Patrol
• Black Is the Color... (2009)
• Blaze of Glory
• The Blue Ridge (as arranger) (2017)
• Bounty Hunter from "Advent Rising"
• Bright Auroral Skies
• Bright Lights! (2015)
• Bristol Bay Legend
• Brule River Celebration
• Cape Fear Chronicles
• Cataclysm (2018)
• Carol of Two Mangers, A
• Celebration and Song (2009)
• Cellular Symphony
• Century Point
• Chanteys
• Charleston Harbor Celebration
• Chiaroscuro: Symphonic Dances in Shades of Darkness and Light
• Child's Lullaby, A (2016)
• Choreography (2009)
• Christmas Couplet, A
• Christmastimes Three
• Coldwater Creek
• Commemoration
• Conundrum
• Corsairs Landing, The
• Crazy for Cartoons (2011)
• Crest of Nobility
• Crossings, The
• Danse Celestiale
• Danzas Cubanas (2010)
• Daydreams (Sheldon) (2013)
• Der Lehrmeister (2017)
• Divertimento
• Dorian Dreamscape
• Eagle Mountain Overture
• Edifice (2014)
• El Rey de Fransia
• El Taco Picante (2017)
• Falcon Lake Overture
• Fall River Overture
• Fanfare and Intermezzo (1998)
• Fantasy on an Early American Marching Tune
• Final Voyage, The
• Fires of Bandai, The (2014)
• Flight of the Piasa (2008)
• Four Winds
• Garden of the Black Rose
• Gently I Wander (2017)
• Gently Touch the Sky
• Ghost Fleet (2001)
• Golden Panther March
• "Halo Suite" from Video Games Live
• Harbinger (2015)
• Hill Country Holiday
• Holiday Sleigh Ride
• Iberian Escapades (2009)
• Images (Sheldon)
• Infinite Horizons
• In the Center Ring (2003)
• In the Shining of the Stars (1996)
• In This Quiet Place
• Integrity
• Intrada for Winds
• Intrepid Journey (2015)
• Irish Air, An
• Irish Ballade, An
• Joyful Journey, A
• Korobochka
• Lantern in the Window, A
• Legend of Starved Rock
• Let Evening Come
• Lindbergh Variations
• Lion's Gate (2019)
• A Longford Legend (1999)
• Lords of Greenwich, The
• Lost Colony
• Lost in Mammoth Cave
• Lydian Lullaby (2006)
• Manatee Lyric Overture
• Maqamat
• March Ceremonial
• March of the Majestics
• March Mixolydian
• Mark of Triumph
• Melody Park (2014)
• Message on the Rock, The
• Metroplex (2006)
• The Monster Under the Bed (2005)
• Moravian Folk Rhapsody (2004/2008)
• Morning Mist (2012)
• Most Wonderful Christmas, A (1934/2006)
• Mystery of Duffy's Cut, The
• Mystic Journey
• Noel Francais
• Northwest Rising
• Ocean Ridge Rhapsody
• Of Kindred Spirit
• On Placid Seas (2015)
• Once the Man
• One Thousand Cranes
• Oracles of the Sirocco (2018)
• Overdrive (2015)
• Overture to a New Horizon (2014)
• Palimpsest
• Paragon
• Patriotic Salute
• Patriotic Snippets
• Pevensey Castle
• Phantom of Dark Hollow, The (2006)
• Phrygian Phantasy
• Pioneer's Passage, The
• Pop Culture (2007)
• Praeludium and Dance
• Prairie Portrait, A (2006)
• Prairiescape
• Prelude on an Old English Hymn (2000)
• Prevail! (2016)
• Pride of the Grenadiers
• Pursuit of the Centaur (2016)
• Quixotic Episode
• Red Covered Bridge, The (2014)
• Red Rock Canyon
• Requiem to a Land Forgotten
• Resurgences (2013)
• Rhapsodic Celebration (2011)
• Ritmico!
• River Trail Expedition
• Rock Island Trail
• Sag Harbor Sunset (2011)
• Sandcastle Sketches
• Savannah River Rhapsody
• Scandinavian Folk Tale, A
• Scottish Ballade, A
• Shenandoah (arr. Sheldon) (2003)
• Siege of Harlech Castle, The
• Silver Spring Soliloquy
• Simple Celebration, A (2001)
• Skydance (2018)
• Sound Innovations Fanfare (2010)
• Southwest Saga
• Spirit Lake Overture
• The Spirit of Killian Hill (2007)
• Spirit of Thanksgiving, The (2014)
• Star Bright (2018)
• The Stormchasers (2012)
• Storybrook Mountain
• Sugar Creek Overture
• The Swords of Stavanger (2009)
• Symphonic Narrative, A
• Synergies
• Tales of Dundee
• There Will Come Soft Rains
• Three Carols for a Celebration
• Three Georgian Vignettes (2008)
• Three Miniatures for Winds and Percussion
• Timberline Overture
• To Conquer the Skies
• Travelin' Music (2016)
• Variants on a Sea Shanty (as arranger) (2014)
• Variants on a Union Hymn
• Velocity
• Visions of Flight
• Voices from the Battlefield
• Wallaby Walkabout
• Welsh Ayres and Dances
• West Highlands Sojourn (1993)
• Willow Grove
• Winds of Morocco
• Windward Overture (2016)
• With Every Sunrise (2016)

References

• Camphouse, Mark, editor. (2002) Composers on Composing for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 295–321.
• Miles, Richard B. 2000. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Volume 3. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 172.
• Nicholson, Chad. "As Twilight Falls." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 10, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 200-209. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2015.
• Robert Sheldon website