Robert Sheldon

Robert Sheldon

Biography

Robert Sheldon (b. 3 February 1954, Chester, Penn.) is an American composer, arranger, conductor and educator.

Sheldon 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

Adaptable Music

• Pevensey Castle (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2012)
• West Highlands Sojourn (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2014)

All Wind Works

• African Adventure (2011)
• An American Hymntune (as arranger) (2004)
• Appalachian Legacy (1995)
• Appalachian Morning (2008)
• Armenian Anthem (2003)
• Art in the Park (2008)
• As Twilight Falls (2011)
• As a Wind from the North (2006)
• An Australian Sea Ballad (2007)
• An Austrian Carol (2012)
• Awakened Like the Morn (2005)
• Barrier Reef (2002)
• A Bayside Portrait (1984)
• Bellefonte Overture (2006)
• Bermuda Triangle, The (2006)
• Beyond the Higher Skies (1999)
• Beyond the Riverbend (2013)
• Big Brass on Patrol (2004)
• Big Sky Round-Up (2011)
• Black Is the Color... (2009)
• Blaze of Glory (2003)
• Blessed Legacy (as arranger) (2019)
• The Blue Ridge (as arranger) (2017)
• Bounty Hunter from "Advent Rising" (2005/2006)
• Bright Auroral Skies
• Bright Lights! (2015)
• Bristol Bay Legend (1988)
• Brule River Celebration (2002)
• By the River's Edge (2020)
• Canadian Ballad (as arranger) (2010)
• Cape Fear Chronicles (1997)
• A Carol Francais (as arranger) (2016)
• A Carol of Two Mangers (as arranger) (2005)
• Cataclysm (2018)
• Celebration and Song (2009)
• Cellular Symphony (2005)
• The Celts of County Clare (2021)
• Century Point (1998)
• Chanteys (2000)
• Charleston Harbor Celebration (2007)
• Chiaroscuro (2002)
• A Child's Lullaby (2017)
• Children of Gaia (2015)
• Chimney Rock Celebration (2017)
• Choreography (2009)
• A Christmas Couplet (as arranger) (2004)
• Christmastimes Three (as arranger) (2002)
• Cimarron Fanfare (2016)
• Coldwater Creek (1996)
• Commemoration Overture (2013)
• The Common Denominator (2013)
• Commonwealth (2021)
• Construction Zone (2010)
• Continental Divide (2010)
• Conundrum (2008)
• The Corsair's Landing (1991)
• Crazy for Cartoons (2011)
• Crest of Nobility (1989)
• Crossing the Rubicon (2020)
• The Crossings (1999)
• Dances of a Shimmering Spirit (2020)
• Dances of Serenity (2017)
• Danse Celestiale (1989)
• Danzas Cubanas (2010)
• Daydreams (2013)
• Der Lehrmeister (2017)
• Divertimento (1976)
• Dorian Dreamscape (2004)
• Eagle Mountain Overture (1990)
• Edifice (2014)
• El Rey de Fransia (as arranger) (2003)
• El Taco Picante (2017)
• Falcon Lake Overture (2004)
• Fall River Overture (1981)
• Fanfare and Festival (2020)
• Fanfare and Intermezzo (1998)
• Fantasy on an Early American Marching Tune (2008)
• The Final Voyage (2003)
• The Fires of Bandai (2014)
• Flight of the Piasa (2008)
• Flowing Stream (2018)
• Four Winds (1993)
• Garden of the Black Rose (2001)
• Gently Touch the Sky (2001)
• Gently, I Wander (2017)
• Ghost Fleet (2001)
• Glorious Insurrection (2020)
• Golden Panther March (2005)
• "Halo Suite" from Video Games Live (2006)
• Harbinger (2015)
• Hawkeye Overture (2017/2019)
• Hill Country Holiday (2001)
• Holiday Bobsled Run (2013)
• Holiday Sleigh Ride (2003)
• Holiday Snippets (as arranger) (2009)
• Holidays on Parade (as arranger) (2008)
• Hues of Blue (2015)
• Iberian Escapades (2009)
• Images (1994)
• In the Center Ring (2003)
• In the Shining of the Stars (1996)
• In This Quiet Place (2003)
• Incandescent Sky (2019)
• Infinite Horizons (2001)
• Integrity (2007)
• Intrada for Winds (1983)
• Intrepid Journey (2015)
• An Irish Air (2006)
• Irish Ballade, An (2003)
• Jolly Rockin' Nicholas (as arranger) (2015)
• A Joyful Journey (2002)
• Korobochka (2003)
• Lake County Landscapes (2015)
• A Lantern in the Window (1998)
• Legend of Starved Rock (1996)
• Let Evening Come (2000)
• Lindbergh Variations (1991)
• Lion's Gate (2019)
• Lone Eagle (2020)
• A Longford Legend (1999)
• The Lords of Greenwich (2010)
• Lost Colony (1994)
• Lost in Mammoth Cave (2006)
• Lydian Lullaby (2006)
• Manatee Lyric Overture (1986)
• Maqamat (2005)
• March Ceremonial (2005)
• March Mixolydian (2005)
• March of the Hyperion Guards (2014)
• March of the Majestics (2004)
• Mark of Triumph (1985)
• Melody Park (2014)
• The Message on the Rock (2004)
• Metrix (2011)
• Metroplex (2006)
• Mills on the Merrimack (2015)
• The Monster Under the Bed (2005)
• Moon Rocks (2016)
• Moravian Folk Rhapsody (2004/2008)
• Morning Mist (2012)
• A Most Wonderful Christmas (as arranger) (1934/2006)
• The Mystery of Duffy's Cut (2007)
• Mystic Journey (2004)
• Noel Francais (2003)
• Northwest Rising (1999)
• Ocean Ridge Rhapsody (1989)
• Ode to Joy (as arranger) (2013)
• Of Distant Peaks (2012)
• Of Kindred Spirit (1997)
• On Placid Seas (2015)
• Once the Man (2005)
• One Thousand Cranes (2010)
• Open Road (2013)
• Oracles of the Sirocco (2018)
• Overdrive (2015)
• Overture to a New Horizon (2014)
• Palimpsest (2003)
• Paragon (2005)
• Patriotic Salute (2003)
• Patriotic Snippets (2008)
• Pevensey Castle (1993)
• Pevensey Castle (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2012)
• The Phantom of Dark Hollow (2006)
• Phrygian Phantasy (2003)
• Piedmont Festival Overture (2016)
• The Pilgrimage (2011)
• The Pioneer's Passage (2000)
• The Pioneers (2010)
• Pop Culture (as arranger) (2007)
• Power the Earth (2019)
• Praeludium and Dance (2008)
• A Prairie Portrait (2006)
• Prairiescape (1996)
• Prelude on an Old English Hymn (2000)
• Presto! (2014)
• Prevail! (2018)
• Pride of the Grenadiers (2005)
• Pursuit of the Centaur (2016)
• Quest of the Knights Templar (2011)
• Quixotic Episode (2002)
• The Red Covered Bridge (2014)
• Red Rock Canyon (1994)
• Reflections on a New Tomorrow (2012)
• Renaissance Fair (2017)
• Requiem to a Land Forgotten (2007)
• Resurgences (2013)
• Rhapsodic Celebration (2011)
• Ritmico! (2001)
• River Trail Expedition (2011)
• Riverside Overture (2019)
• Rock Island Trail (2002)
• Rock That Bach! (as arranger) (2012)
• Rock This Band! (2019)
• Royal March (2012)
• Sag Harbor Sunset (2011)
• Sandcastle Sketches (1987)
• Savannah River Rhapsody (2012)
• A Scandinavian Folk Tale (2003)
• A Scottish Ballade (2004)
• Serenade (2015)
• Shadows of the Equinox (2012)
• Shenandoah (as arranger) (2003)
• Shenanigans (2009)
• Sugar Creek Overture (2007)
• The Siege of Harlech Castle 2012)
• Silver Spring Soliloquy (1992)
• A Simple Celebration (2001)
• Skydance (2018)
• Snow Globe (2010)
• Sonatina (2016)
• A Song of Hanukkah (as arranger) (2017)
• Sound Innovations Fanfare (2010)
• South Shore Soliloquy (2019)
• Southampton March (2017)
• Southwest Saga (1987)
• Spirit Lake Overture (1991)
• The Spirit of Killian Hill (2007)
• The Spirit of Thanksgiving (as arranger) (2014)
• Spontaneous Combustion (2011)
• Spoon River (as arranger) (1991)
• Star Bright (2018)
• Stately Dances (2015)
• Storm Warning! (2014)
• The Stormchasers (2012)
• Storybrook Mountain (1998)
• Sugar Creek Overture (2007)
• The Swords of Stavanger (2009)
• A Symphonic Celebration (2019)
• A Symphonic Narrative (1992)
• Symphonic Suite from "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (as arranger) (2005)
• Synergies (2008)
• Tales of Dundee (2005)
• Tango Argentina (2016)
• There Will Come Soft Rains (2007)
• Three Carols for a Celebration (as arranger) (2007)
• Three Georgian Vignettes (2008)
• Three Miniatures for Winds and Percussion (2005)
• Timberline Overture (2003)
• To Conquer the Skies (2004)
• To a Wild Rose (as arranger) (2014)
• Travelin' Music (as arranger) (2016)
• Triumph of the Argonauts (2014)
• A Ukrainian Christmas (as arranger) (2017)
• Uptown Strut (2013)
• Variants on a Sea Shanty (as arranger) (2014)
• Variants on a Union Hymn (2005)
• Velocity (2009)
• Visions of Flight (1990)
• Voices from the Battlefield (1995)
• Walking Tune (as arranger) (2020)
• Wallaby Walkabout (2003)
• Welsh Ayres and Dances (as arranger) (2003)
• West Highlands Sojourn (1993)
• West Highlands Sojourn (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2014)
• Willow Grove (1992)
• Winds of Morocco (2001)
• Windward Overture (2016)
• With Every Sunrise (2016)
• A Woodland Celebration (2021)
• A Yiddish Lullaby (as arranger) (2012)

Resources

• 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 Accessed 3 September 2021