Biographical Sketches

Sam Sheeler

Soloist, Trumpet

Sam Sheeler joined the Concord Band trumpet section in 2002 after moving to Massachusetts from Pennsylvania. A talented musician, Sam plays both trumpet and double bass and has performed extensively with both professional and non-professional musical organizations. As a senior in high school, Sam played first chair trumpet in the Pennsylvania Southern Division Band as well as principal bass in the Southern Division Orchestra. In 1974, he won the Harrisburg Symphony Youth Soloist Concerto Competition.

He attended Eastman School of Music in Rochester New York, where he studied with Sidney Mear, former principal trumpet in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Sam has performed with the Maryland Symphony, the Richardson (Texas) Symphony, The San Marcos (Arizona) Symphony, and the famous Allentown (Pennsylvania) Band.

Sam lives in Hudson and is a computer aided design software engineer at Intel.

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