Robert W. Smith is one of the most popular and
prolific composers of educational and commercial
music in America today. He has over 300 publications with such
publishers as Warner Brothers, CPP/Belwin, Hal Leonard, Jenson, Studio PR, Musicworks, and Columbia Pictures. His compositions and arrangements have been used in a variety of situations, most recently in the celebration of the
700th anniversary of the
Grimaldi dynasty in Monaco.
Mr. Smith is currently teaching at
Troy State University in
Troy, Alabama, where he serves as Director of Bands. He has also taught at
James Madison University in
Harrisonburg, Virginia, where his teaching responsibilities were focused in the Music Industry program and include courses in all areas of commercial writing and production, record company operations, and music merchandising. He also conducted the Symphonic Band between 1995 and 1997.
Works composed by Robert W. Smith (in no particular order): Encanto; Into the Storm;
Africa: Ceremony, Song and Ritual; The Inferno, The Ascension, Purgatory, and
Paradisio from the
Divine Comedy; Songs of Sailor and Sea; Suite for Flute,
Winds and Percussion (world premiere given April, 1997 by the JMU Symphonic Band
and Carol Kniebusch Noe), The Winds of
Poseidon,
Incantations, The Tempest.