Robert Sheldon

Robert Sheldon is one of the most performed composers of cool band music today. A person of numerous awards from the American School Band Director's Association, Phi Beta Mu and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, his compositions embody a level of expression that resonates with ensembles and audiences alike. His music is performed around the world and appears on many international concert and contest lists. Mr. Sheldon regularly accepts commissions for new works, and produces numerous publications for concert band each year.

In addition to his position as Conductor of the Prairie Wind Ensemble, his schedule includes many engagements as a guest conductor for All-State and Regional Honor Bands. He also frequently appears as a Music Education clinician, and has presented sessions and seminars at numerous colleges and universities as well as state Music Education Association conferences. He has served as a conductor and clinician throughout the United States, as well as Japan, Canada, and The Republic of China, and has conducted performances of his works in New York's Carnegie Hall, Chicago's Orchestra Hall and Boston's Symphony Hall. Mr. Sheldon is currently Concert Band Editor for the Alfred Publishing Company.

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 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-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,

His commissioned published compositions and arrangments include:

An American Hymntune

Appalachian Legacy, op. 46

Appalachian Morning, op. 127

Art in the Park, op. 95

As a Wind from the North, op. 104

Awakened Like the Morn, op. 65

Barrier Reef, op. 81

A Bayside Portrait, op. 21

Bellefonte Overture, op. 111

Beyond the Higher Skies, op. 62

Blaze of Glory, op. 88

Bristol Bay Legend, op. 29

Brule River Celebration, op. 77

Cape Fear Chronicles, op. 54

Century Point, op. 61

Chanteys, op. 70

Charleston Harbor Celebration, op. 119

Chiaroscuro: Symphonic Dances in Shades of Darkness and Light, op. 79

Coldwater Creek, op. 56

The Corsairs Landing, op. 26

Crest of Nobility, op. 31

The Crossings, op. 64

Danse Celestiale, op. 28

Eagle Mountain Overture, op. 34

Falcon Lake Overture, op. 93

Fall River Overture

Fanfare and Intermezzo, op. 24

Fantasy on an Early American Marching Tune, op. 125

The Final Voyage, op. 85

Flight of the Piasa, op. 120

Four Winds, op. 43

Garden of the Black Rose, op. 72

Ghost Fleet, op. 71

Hill Country Holiday, op. 76

Images, op. 45

Infinite Horizons, op. 73

In the Center Ring, op. 97

In the Shining of the Stars, op.57

Integrity, op. 123

A Lantern in the Window, op. 59

Legend of Starved Rock, op. 53

Let Evening Come, op. 68

Lindbergh Variations, op. 36

A Longford Legend, op. 58

Lost Colony, op. 41

Lost in Mammoth Cave, op.112

Manatee Lyric Overture, op. 23

Mark of Triumph, op. 22

The Message on the Rock, op. 102

Metroplex: Three Postcards from Manhattan, op.110

Moravian Folk Rhapsody, op. 92

The Mystery of Duffy's Cut, op. 114

Mystic Journey, op. 98

Northwest Rising, op. 50

Ocean Ridge Rhapsody, op. 32

Of Kindred Spirit, op. 60

Palimpsest, op. 87

The Phantom of Dark Hollow, op. 113

The Pioneer's Passage, op. 69

Praeludium and Dance, op. 130

A Prairie Portrait, op. 96

Prairiescape, op. 55

Prelude on an Old English Hymn, op. 67

Pride of the Grenadiers, op. 103

Quixotic Episode, op. 80

Red Rock Canyon, op. 48

Requiem to a Land Forgotten, op 105

Ritmico!, op 75

Rock Island Trail, op. 82

Sandcastle Sketches, op. 27

Silver Spring Soliloquy, op. 37

A Simple Celebration, op. 49

Southwest Saga, op. 25

Spirit Lake Overture, op. 35

The Spirit of Killian Hill, op. 118

Storybrook Mountain, op. 63

A Symphonic Narrative, op. 38

Synergies, op. 128

Tales of Dundee, op. 106

Three Georgian Vignettes, op. 121

Three Miniatures for Winds and Percussion, op. 99

Timberline Overture, op. 89

To Conquer the Skies, op. 94

Visions of Flight, op. 30

Voices from the Battlefield, op. 52

Welsh Ayres and Dances, op. 84

West Highlands Sojourn, op. 39

Winds of Morocco, op.78

Other Published Works:

Armenian Anthem

An Australian Sea Ballad

The Bermuda Triangle, op. 117

Big Brass on Patrol

Bounty Hunter from "Advent Rising"

A Carol of Two Mangers

Cellular Symphony, op. 109

A Christmas Couplet

Christmastimes Three

Conundrum

Divertimento, op. 9

Dorian Dreamscape, op. 100

El Rey de Fransia

Fall River Overture, op. 18

Gently Touch the Sky, op. 74

"Halo Suite" from Video Games Live

Holiday Sleigh Ride

In this quiet place, op. 91

Intrada for Winds, op. 20

An Irish Air

An Irish Ballade

A Joyful Journey, op. 83

Korobochka

Lydian Lullaby, op. 116

March Ceremonial, op. 86

March of the Majestics, op. 101

March Mixolydian, op. 108

The Monster Under the Bed, op. 107

A Most Wonderful Christmas

Noel Francais

Patriotic Salute

Patriotic Snippets

Pevensey Castle, op. 44

Phrygian Phantasy, op. 90

Pop Culture

A Scandinavian Folk Tale

A Scottish Ballade

Shenandoah

Spoon River

Sugar Creek Overture

Symphonic Suite from "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

There Will Come Soft Rains, op. 122

Three Carols for a Celebration

Wallaby Walkabout

Willow Grove, op. 40

Compositions & Commissioned Works soon to be published:

Bright Auroral Skies, op. 115

Choreography, op. 125

Commemoration, op. 136

Golden Panther March, op. 42

The Lords of Greenwich, op. 131

Maqamat, op. 13

Once the Man, op. 66

Paragon, op. 51

Iberian Escapades: The Villas of Boca Raton, op. 135

River Trail Expedition, op. 134

Savannah River Rhapsody, op. 129

Storm Chaser March, op. 47

Variants on a Union Hymn, op. 33

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