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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 holds dual positions as assistant professor of music at the University of Wyoming where he teaches trombone and jazz, as well as serving as a Fellow in the Culture Laboratory of the Plangere Center at Rutgers the State University of New Jersey.

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

  • 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 with the Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Co-composed work, Harlem Retrospective, with Thomas Wirtel (AKA Shabda Noor)
  • East coast tour with Brass International, featuring Paul Merkelo, Principal Trumpet with the 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” First Dimension Records)

Dr. Sheridan-Rabideau’s work as a social entrepreneur has been recently featured in talks at the National Conference of the College Music Society (San Antonio, TX) and at Cambridge University (UK) and his innovative approach to teaching was recently featured on NPR Radio’s Weekend America (Harrisburg, PA). 

Doing Good: Social Entrepreneurialism and the New Humanities (in progress with co-author Dr. Richard E. Miller, Chair, Department of English at Rutgers University) 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 humanities curricula-has failed to prepare students to engage meaningfully with contemporary challenges, Miller and Sheridan-Rabideau offer an alternate view of how the humanities might be transformed to provide undergraduates with experientially-based encounters with the creative side of problem-solving.