Collection: Shelley Marwood

Shelley Marwood is a Canadian composer whose music has been described as "laugh out loud funny" (Selfie, Classic Concerts NS), "charming and wistful" (Merge, CAML), "full of personality" (Merge, Notations), and which “balances intensity and serenity with colorful gestures of beauty and restraint (Reconciling Duality, Take Effect Reviews).

Shelley’s music is frequently narrative, theatrical and comedic, strongly emotional, and visually evocative. Her works have been commissioned and performed across North America and in Europe by ensembles such as the Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Windsor Symphony Orchestras, Rubbing Stone Ensemble, Jubilate Singers, Greater Windsor Concert Band, Goodchild Grady Duo, and Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal.

In 2015 Shelley won both the Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music (Imaginings) and the UofT Choral Composition Competition (These Fragile Snowflakes). She received first prize in the 2008 CMC Prairie Region Emerging Composers’ Competition (Illumination), was a finalist in the 2006 Land's End Composers' Competition (Piano Trio No.1), and was one of the featured composers of the 2009 Windsor Canadian Music Festival. Her work has received support from grants through the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the University of Toronto, The Banff Centre, and the SOCAN Foundation.