SHELBIE RASSLER named Truthspaper’s “Young Woman of the Year,” is a globally recognized musician whose work as a composer, music director, and producer spans prestigious performances and productions worldwide. Her compositions, arrangements, and orchestrations have been featured at The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The West End’s His Majesty’s Theatre. Following her viral production of Burt Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now,” Rassler received a CBS Sunday Morning Award and was featured on CNN’s “The Fourth in America” alongside Mr. Bacharach, as well as appearing on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Forbes, and NPR. Rassler’s film scoring and mixed media creations have premiered at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Amazon Prime, and various film festivals, as well as in commercials, jingles, and podcasts reaching millions. Rassler often collaborates with Broadway stars on Seth Rudetsky’s hit show, “Stars in the House,”helping to raise over $1.5 million for those in need. She played a key role in the Emmy®-nominated 2021 “Presidential Inauguration Concert’s “Seasons of Love” Broadway Performance, and her production of “Georgia On My Mind” premiered at Stacey Abrams’ “Rock the Runoff Concert” and landed on the Billboard charts shortly after. Most recently, Rassler served as Music Producer for “Bring Them Home: A Broadway Prayer,” produced by Debra Messing, Seth Rudetsky, and Schele Williams. In her role as Music Director of the Vail Dance Festival (Artistic Director Damian Woetzel), Rassler collaborates with acclaimed dance companies such as Martha Graham, Limón, American Ballet Theatre,and New York City Ballet. Rassler conducts the Festival performances at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater and arranges many of the live works, alongside Composer-in-Residence and Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Shaw, and celebrated artists, such as Brooklyn Rider, Chris Thile, and Lil Buck. Rassler also serves as an arranger for Fever’s Candlelight Concert Series, with her arrangements heard daily in over 300 cities worldwide, reaching millions of attendees. She has held composition residencies at pianoSonoma, University of Kansas, and University of Colorado Denver, where she arranged the institution’s new alma mater. Rassler has composed new works, arrangements, and orchestrations for renowned performers and ensembles including Lara Downes, the New World Symphony Orchestra, members of the United Nations Chamber Music Society, and the Broward Health Foundation. As a motivational speaker, Rassler was featured at the 2021 Imagine Solutions Conference and has since spoken at numerous conferences and panels, including the College Music Society. She has taught Masterclasses at Maestra Music, Emerson College, and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Rassler holds a Master’s in Music Composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Pulitzer Prize Winner John Corigliano, and a Bachelor’s in Music Composition from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She is a proud Juilliard Career Advancement Fellow, Boston Conservatory Presser Scholar, and recipient of the Robert Sherman Music Education and Community Outreach Award. Rassler won the Eugene New Music Festival’s 2022 Call for Scores and was recently nominated for an American Academy of Arts and Letters Composer Award. She currently lives in New York City and has lived in Fort Lauderdale, FL; Boston, MA; and New York, NY. Her hometown is Weston, FL, and she attended Cypress Bay High School.