Brian Sleeper is a graduate of the Ithaca College School of Music, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education in 1997. While Mr. Sleeper did not pursue coursework in composition at Ithaca, he performed and studied under conductors such as Rodney Winther, Mark Fonder, Henry Neubert and Karl Swearingen. Also, during his time there Mr. Sleeper became a member of the Delta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a men's fraternal organization focused on music advocacy and awareness across the United States.
During his college years, Mr. Sleeper also had the opportunity to perform for two seasons with the Cadets of Bergen County Drum and Bugle Corps. He then went on to teach a number of marching ensembles, both scholastic and independent, in New York and New Jersey. Independent ensembles that Mr. Sleeper had the opportunity with which to work included both Phoenix Drum and Bugle Corps and Spectrum Drum and Bugle Corps where he was the brass arranger and caption head from 1998-2000.
Mr. Sleeper's school teaching career began in 1997 when he was hired as the Assistant Band Director and teacher of instrumental music and music theory at Kearny High School in Hudson County, NJ. In 1999 he accepted a teaching job in Pemberton Township, NJ where he's been teaching ever since. His responsibilities at Pemberton have included directing, and arranging for, the marching band, directing the concert band and small ensembles, and teaching piano, music history and music theory classes.
Mr. Sleeper plays the tuba with the South Jersey Area Wind Ensemble. He became affiliated with the organization shortly after winning its American Composer Competition in 2011 with his piece titled "Hero from an Age Unremembered".
Brian Sleeper currently teaches elementary and middle school music in Pemberton Township, NJ. When not spending time with his children, he continues to create original compositions for concert band and wind ensemble at his home in Medford, NJ.