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University of Wyoming

Mark Sheridan-Rabideau

Trombone
 

Dr. Mark Sheridan-Rabideau is a performer, arts presenter, social entrepreneur, and teacher/scholar. He is an assistant professor of music at the University of Wyoming where he teaches trombone and jazz.

As a Getzen artist/clinician and founding member of the Continental Trombone Quartet (CTQ) Sheridan-Rabideau is active throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia presenting and performing for some of the most prominent academic conferences. Including:

  • First Annual Chinese Trombone Festival in Beijing, China (August 2007)
  • International Trombone Festival in Brasilia, Brazil (2007)
  • National Conference of the College Music Society in Quebec City, Canada (2005)
  • Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, IL (2005)
  • International Conference of the College Music Society in Madrid, Spain (2005)
  • International Association of Jazz Educators’ Conference in Long Beach, California (2005)
  • Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington DC (2004)

Additionally, Dr. Sheridan-Rabideau regularly performs a diverse repertoire with some of today’s world-renown musicians.

  • Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat, featuring Kim Fisher, Principal Second Violinist, Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Co-composed work, Harlem Retrospective, with Thomas Wirtel (AKA Shabda Noor)
    Brass International, featuring Paul Merkelo, Principal Trumpet, Montreal Symphony Orchestra
  • Sheridan-Rabideau was a charter member of the University of Illinois Faculty Jazz Ensemble, performing with Ron Bridgewater, Thomas Wirtel, and Keith Javors, where he served as co-chair of the jazz division.

Dr. Sheridan-Rabideau holds Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in trombone performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he studied with Robert Gray and Elliot Chasanov, respectively, and a Masters degree from the University of Notre Dame where he studied with Frank Crisafuli. He has also studied extensively with David Sporny.

Dr. Sheridan-Rabideau is active as an arts presenter, serving as Executive Director for Artists Now (Highland Park, NJ); producing and hosting radio shows (“Live from Smoke” NYC); producing CDs (“Monday Nights with John Farnsworth”, Artists Now Records).

His innovative approach to teaching was recently featured on NPR Radio’s Weekend America (Harrisburg, PA).

Dr. Sheridan-Rabideau’s current project, Doing Good: Meaningful educational reform for the 21st Century (in progress) challenges the academy to rethink traditional pedagogies while cultivating the creative and imaginative powers that reside at the heart of social entrepreneurship. Contending that training in the arts of critique-the standard fare of university-level curricula-has failed to prepare students to engage meaningfully with contemporary challenges, Sheridan-Rabideau offers an alternate view of how education might be transformed to provide undergraduates with experientially-based encounters with the creative side of problem-solving.