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Dr. Robert "Coach" Fleming, was Professor of Music, Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Sun Devil
Marching Band at Arizona State University from 1974 to 2002. He has degrees from Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Southern Illinois University (Doctor of Philosophy in Secondary
Education). His Arizona State University Sun Devil Marching Band received the 1991 Sudler Trophy
distinguishing it as one of the most outstanding marching band programs in the country. He also
conducted the ASU Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and the Sun Devil Basketball Pep Bands.
Prior to his arrival at Arizona State University in 1974, he was Director of Bands at the University of Tennessee
at Martin, Tennessee for seven years.
Professor Fleming is an active marching and concert band clinician, adjudicator, and
a member of numerous professional organizations. He served on the Board of Directors of
the American Bandmasters Association from 1990 to 1993. He is past President of the PAC
10 Band Directors Association and past National President of the National Honorary Band
Fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi. He continued to serve as a member of the Board of Trustees
for the next 15 years. He was a member of the Board of Directors for the John Phillip
Sousa Foundation from 1996-2002 and served as chairman of the Sudler Shield Committee from 1990
to 2002. In 1989, Dr. Fleming was installed as an honorary member of the Alpha Chapter of
Phi Beta Mu, the International Bandmasters Fraternity. In 1993, Dr. Fleming received the
Bohumil Makovsky Memorial Award to Outstanding College Band Directors from Kappa Kappa Psi
and in September of 1994, he received the Professional Fraternity Association's 1994 Faculty
Award of Excellence. In 1996 Dr. Fleming received the O.M. Hartsell Excellence in Teaching Award
from the Arizona Music Educators Association. Also in 1996, Dr. Fleming was the conductor for
the South Dakota and Colorado All State Bands. On November 30, 2000, Dr. Fleming received the
Distinguished Service To Music Medal from Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity.
Upon his retirement from
ASU, he was given the title of Associate Director of Bands Emeritus.
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