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Robert L. Simon
received a Bachelor's degree in music from New York University and a
Master's degree in music composition from San Francisco State
University. While working on his B.A. degree at NYU, he studied music
composition privately for two years with Dante Fiorillo. He received
a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UCLA. Most of Mr. Simon's life has
been spent as a music educator. During his first twenty years as a
teacher, he taught bands, orchestras, and choirs in elementary,
junior high, and high schools in California and Europe. His past
seventeen years have been in the music department at California State
Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, California. |