Travis J Weller

Travis J. Weller

Biography

Travis J. Weller (b. December 1973) is an arranger, composer, educator and advocate of music education.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Grove City College, a Master’s Degree in Music Education from Duquesne University, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from Kent State University.

He has been the director of bands at Mercer Area (Penn.) Middle-Senior High School since August of 1995. Travis is a member of Phi Beta Mu (Nu Chapter), ASCAP, and the National Band Association. He has presented on instrumental music education at the PMEA State Conference, professional development sessions, and secondary music methods classes at area colleges and universities. He has been a contributing author for articles in Teaching Music, The Instrumentalist, The PMEA Journal, Phi Beta Mu International Newsletter, National Band Association Journal, and Learning and Leading with Technology. He is in frequent demand as a guest conductor for honor bands and composer in residence sessions with school bands across Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio.

As a composer, Travis's 2009 piece Journey to the Prairie received third place in the 2nd Annual Frank Ticheli Composition Contest. In addition to commissioned works from school groups and community bands, he has received several J.W.Pepper Editor’s Choice nominations, several Bandworld Top 100 nominations, four ASCAP Plus Awards, and has received a number of reviews of his works by The Instrumentalist. His pieces for band have been performed by groups ranging from elementary to the collegiate level.

Dr. Weller is [2021] director of music education at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

Works for Winds

• American Visions (2008)
• Apollo Arise (2018)
• As Joy Ignites (2020)
• As Moonlight Falls (2021)
• Canticles of Hyperion (2021)
• Chasing Mercury (2019)
• Country Sketches (2014)
• Dancing Under the Stars (2013)
• Dream Chaser (2012)
• Eyes of the Dragon (2014)
• Fanfare of Joy (2017)
• Fanfare on Themes of Davenport
• Festival and Ballad for Winds (2011)
• A Festival Celebration (2020)
• Festival Espirit (2013)
• Festival of Flight (2017)
• Flourishing Noels (2013)
• The Forge of Freedom (2018)
• A Frontier Fought and a City Found (2010)
• Hammer and Rail (2015)
• I Bought Me a Band (2012)
• Irish Jig for Young Feet (2009)
• Journey to the Prairie (2010)
• Jubilant Flourishes (2012)
• The Last Stagecoach Heist (2012)
• Let Them Soar! (2014)
• Lonely Travelers (2020)
• Metro Dances (2018)
• Monsters of Myth (2013)
• Moravian Dance (2011)
• Peat Fire Flame (2019)
• Pirates! (2009)
• Rattlesnake Rhumba (2017)
• Renaissance Round (2018)
• Resilience (2021)
• The Rising Kingdom (2016)
• Rising Winds From the Valley (2011)
• A Scottish Sunrise (2015)
• The Shady Grove (2017)
• Siege of the Dark Castle (2011)
• Songs of Soldiers (2017)
• Sonic Ascent (2013)
• Sugar Plum Samba (2016)
• Tales of a Medieval Warrior (2010)
• Triumphant Flourishes (2019)
• The Warrior's Path (2021)
• A West Highland Fanfare (2011)
• Winds of Joy (2019)
• Winds of a New Day (2012)
• A Winter Flourish for Wenceslas (2019)
• Yankee Fanfare (2013)

Resources

• "Travis J Weller from Grove City, PA." Nuwber. Web. Accessed 9 July 2021
• Travis J. Weller website