Sherman, Arnold

ARNOLD SHERMAN (b. 1948), currently living in Tyler, Texas, is a free-lance composer and co-founder of Red River Music. His undergraduate work in music education was done at Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland, and Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Arnold is the founder and Director of the East Texas Handbell Ensemble. A clinician and guest conductor, he has led choral and handbell workshops, festivals, and reading sessions throughout the United States, Canada, England, Japan and the Bahamas. Arnold has over three hundred choral and handbell pieces in print and has been an active member of the AGEHR where he has served as Area IX Chairman. As of 2002 he has 54 different published titles in the Hope/Agape catalogs.