Shelley Marwood.

Shelley Marwood is a Canadian composer whose output spans orchestra, wind ensemble, opera, choir, chamber ensembles and solo instruments, with music that is frequently narrative, theatrical, comedic and visually evocative. Her works have been commissioned and performed across North America and Europe by ensembles including the Vancouver, Winnipeg and Windsor symphony orchestras and Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, and her guitar writing has been praised for balancing "intensity and serenity with colorful gestures of beauty and restraint" (Take Effect Reviews). A winner of the Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music and the University of Toronto Choral Composition Competition, she holds a DMA from the University of Toronto and runs a piano studio in Toronto. Her MusiCurate catalogue includes Reconciling Duality and Periodically, commissioned for the winner of the 2024 GuitarFest West performance competition.