Robert Halseth, Wind Studies • (916) 278-5091 • Send Email

Robert Halseth, Professor of Conducting/Wind Studies and Director of Bands, conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Band, teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting, and is the founder and co-clinician of the CSUS Summer Wind Conducting Workshop, which began in 1994. Previous music faculty positions include University of the Pacific, Carroll College, and the public schools of Oceanside, California.

He holds the Doctor of Arts degree in Wind Conducting and Brass Pedagogy from the University of Northern Colorado, where he was a student of Eugene Migliaro Corporon. He has also studied conducting with H. Robert Reynolds and Frederick Fennell. As a trombonist he played with the San Diego Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, Milwaukee Ballet, Bay Bones and Stockton Symphony, and performed with such well known musicians as Beverly Sills, Vic Damone, Bobby McFerrin, Johnny Mathis, Manhattan Transfer, Allen Vizzutti and Cab Calloway.

As a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator and music educator, he has made more than 100 appearances in the United States, England, Guam, Singapore, Australia and Norway. At the 2004 New York Wind Band Festival, he led the showcase concert of the Sacramento State Symphonic Wind Ensemble in Carnegie Hall.  He has conducted the California Wind Orchestra, Stockton Concert Band, Stockton Opera, Sacramento Youth Symphony Winds, and San Francisco Bay Bones, and is an active clinician with area school bands.  Since 1995 he has served as senior band conductor of the Donner Mine Music Camp, and is Past President of the Western Division of the College Band Directors National Association.