Michael Sweeney is an ASCAP award-winning U.S. citizen

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 composer

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 and musician

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Biography

Sweeney studied music education and composition at the Indiana University

Indiana University

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 Bloomington Work. Sweeney taught five years in public schools of Ohio and Indiana, where he taught many concert, jazz

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 and marching programs (including three years with the respected Greenwood High School Marching Woodmen) for students from elementary to high school.

Since 1982, he has worked full time for Hal Leonard Corporation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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and is currently Director of Band Publications. In addition, he contributes as a composer and arranger in all instrumental areas. Sweeney is particularly known for his writing at the younger levels for concert and jazz bands, and has over 500 publications to his credit. His works appear on numerous state contest lists and his music is regularly performed around the world. An ASCAP award-winning composer, his "Ancient Voices" (1994) and "Imperium" (1992) are analyzed in music education texts from GIA Publications.

Sweeney is also on high demand as a clinician and conductor for honor bands and music festivals.

Commissioned for bands

• 2008 On the Edge of Tomorrow
• 2008 Power Rock - Another One Bites the Dust
• 2007 Passages
• 2000 Black Forest Overture
• 1989 Blast from the Past
• 1989 Deck the Hall
• 1989 Dixieland Bash
• 1989 Kokomo
• 1992 Imperium
• 1994 Ancient Voices
• Amy Grant in Concert

Aladdin

• Band on Parade
• Bandroom Boogie
• Beyond the Seven Hills
• Black Forest Overture
• Bring on Da Band
• Cayuga Lake Overture
• China Grove
• Christmas Joy
• Cool Blues
• Corinthium
• Crossings in Time
• Dialogues, voor harmonieorkest
• Distant Horizons
• Distant Thunder of the Sacred Forest
• Drums of Corona
• Down by the Salley Gardens
• Equinox - Gershwin Classics
• Fires of Mazama
• Forge of Vulcan
• Freedom at Midnight
• Gallant March
• Gates of Orion
• Gathering in the Glen
• Groove Bug
• The Hanukkah Song
• Half Moon on the Hudson
• Hark! The Herald Tubas Sing
• High Water Mark: The Third Day
• Imperium
• Jus' Plain Blues
• Kinesis
• Knights of Destiny
• Lament and Tribal Dances
• Legends in the Mist
• Let's Rock
• Lincoln Legacy
• March of the Romans
• Monmouth Overture
• Mystic Dance
• On the Wings of Swallows
• Out of the Shadows
• Pantheon
• Pegasus (Wings of Majesty)
• Pirates of the Caribbean (The Medallion Calls - The Black Pearl)(arrangement from the version of Klaus Badelt)
• Pop and Rock Legends: Music of "The Beatles"
• Port o' Call
• Pictures at an Exhibition
• Quad City Stomp
• River Of The Ancients
• Rumble on the High Plains
• Sax Attack
• Silverbrook
• Southern Folk Rhapsody
• Spirit of Avalon
• Strike Force
• The Forge of Vulcan
• The Groovemeister
• The Royal Tower
• Troy!
• Turbo Rock
• T.W.A. (Trumpets with Attitude)
• Valley of Fire
• Variants on an American Hymn
• When Drummers Take over the World
• Where the Sun Breaks Through the Mist
• White Christmas (arrangement from the version of Irving Berlin)"
• Wilderness Scenes (from «The Journal Of Discovery»)
• Wild Thing
• Year of the Dragon