Shelbie Rassler rose to national and global acclaim for her compositions and viral social impact music videos supporting those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Following her production of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “What the World Needs Now,” Shelbie was presented with a CBS Sunday Morning Award, and the video was featured with discussions between Shelbie and Mr. Bacharach on CNN’s “The Fourth in America” Primetime Special. Shelbie has been interviewed on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Forbes, NPR, SiriusXM, and dozens of other media outlets. 

Shelbie’s music has been featured in some of the most prestigious concert halls and theaters in the world, including The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, The West End’s His Majesty Theater, and The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail, CO. She also works as an Arranger for Concertize and Candlelight Concerts, bringing classical music to over 3 million people and 100 cities around the world, as well as the Club Quarantine Concert Series, orchestrating music for the biggest names in Hip-Hop and R&B!

Shelbie has written new works, arrangements and orchestrations for notable performers and ensembles such as Yo-Yo Ma, Anthony McGill, Brad Balliett of Decoda (Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble-in-Residence), the New World Symphony Orchestra, Kris Bowers’ ARRAY x Juilliard, members of the United Nations Chamber Music Society, and the Broward Health Foundation, as well as several SONY Records and RCA Records artists. 

Shelbie often works as a Guest Artist at The Juilliard School, and over the summer, she is the proud Music Director of the Vail Dance Festival, alongside Artistic Director Damian Woetzel and several world-renowned dance companies, where she can be found conducting and performing with esteemed artists, including Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw, the Festival’s Composer-in-Residence, and Brooklyn Rider, the Ensemble-in-Residence. 

Shelbie began working with Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley on their hit show, "Stars in the House" during the pandemic and collaborated with Broadway stars to help raise over $1 million for The Entertainment Community Fund.  Shelbie also played key roles on Seth and James’ music productions for the “Seasons of Love/Let the Sunshine In” Broadway Stars Performance at the Emmy-Nominated 2021 Presidential Inauguration Concert, alongside artists such as Katy Perry and Demi Lovato, and their “Georgia On My Mind” music video, which was featured in the “Rock the Runoff Virtual Concert”, raised over $1M in donations for Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight for voting rights in Georgia.

This fall, Shelbie received the Robert Sherman Music Education and Community Outreach Award in recognition of her community service involvement and most recently, she was the Music Producer of “Bring Them Home: A Broadway Prayer”, produced by Seth, James, Debra Messing and Schele Williams.

Shelbie also produced a string of virtual performances, many of which were fundraisers for organizations such as the NAACP, Americans for the Arts, and several Covid Relief and Healthcare Workers' Funds.

Shelbie was named Truthspaper's "Young Woman of the Year”, alongside notable figures such as Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Greta Thunberg. She has also been nominated for an American Academy of Arts and Letters Composer Award, was named the Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Presser Scholar, and winner of the Eugene New Music Festival Call for Scores and Golden Hornet String Quartet Smackdown Call for Scores.

As a film composer, Shelbie has worked on the music team of various Netflix shows and has written the score for a Lexus commercial and documentary, various HBO Max ads, several theme songs and jingles for renowned social media influencers, and many short films, including “Titan”, which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime and is a CMF Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, and “Wright of Passage”, which premiered at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Her most recent scoring project, “L-8” has won several awards in the Film Festival circuit and will be digitally released soon.

Shelbie has been a Composer-in-Residence at the University of Kansas, the pianoSonoma Music Festival and the University of Colorado Denver, where she’s proud to have arranged the institution's new alma mater, alongside Grammy-Nominated artist Becca Stevens. 

As a Music Director, Shelbie has worked at the Lovewell Institute for the Creative Arts, helping young students write new musicals, and her own original musical, "Voices", written with Harley Seger, was a New York Musical Festival Finalist and has since been featured at Feinstein's 54Below. Shelbie is currently in the process of orchestrating two brand new musicals and is excited to share more info soon!

As a motivational speaker, Shelbie was one of the 19 Featured Speakers at the 2021 Imagine Solutions Conference. She has spoken at countless conferences and on dozens of panels at organizations such as the College Music Society and SXSW, and she has taught masterclasses at organizations and institutions such as Maestra Music, led by Georgia Stitt, Emerson College, the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, The Juilliard School and more.

Shelbie graduated from The Juilliard School in 2022 with a Master's in Music Composition, where she studied with Pulitzer Prize winner John Corigliano and was a Juilliard Teaching Fellow. She earned her Bachelor’s in Music Composition from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in 2020, where she studied with renowned composer Jonathan Bailey Holland. 

Shelbie is so incredibly grateful for the many teachers, mentors, collaborators and supporters in her life and is excited to continue sharing music directly from her heart to audiences all over the world!