Robert Feldbush is a music educator with over fifty years of experience working with
school music groups, from elementary school to college level. He attended Kent State
University where he received degrees in music education and music theory and composition.
Bob also spent four years in the United States Navy and attended the Navy School
of Music in Washington, D.C. Twenty-six years of his public school teaching were spent
at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Ohio. His marching band and jazz ensembles consitently
received superior ratings. In January of 2000, he received a distinguished alumnus award
in music education from Kent State University. He has been a member of the adjunct faculty
of the Kent State Stark Campus where he directed the Kent Jazz Society big band.
Bob performs professionally with a variety of musical groups on saxophone, clarinet, and
flute. Some of the groups he plays in are the John Trapani Big Band, the Meadowbrook Big Band,
the Canton Cabaret Orchestra, the Storyville Stompers, and the Stark County Fair Band. He
is in great demand as a clinician, and has written and arranged many musical works on commission.
Several of his compositions are published by Ludwig/Great Works Publishing Company. Always
actively writing music, Bob has contributed over thirty arrangements to The Swing Machine's
repertoire.
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