Shelby Lock is a pianist, composer, and audio engineer hailing from the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. A lifelong nature lover, her music evokes her surroundings with hints of folk styles blended with cinematic melodies.

In 2012, the GRAMMY Foundation invited Shelby to study audio engineering with a handful of high schoolers at the prestigious GRAMMY Camp in both Los Angeles and New York. A year later, Shelby released her debut solo piano album, Airborne, containing her original piano compositions that she also performed, recorded, and engineered.

In 2016, Lock made her orchestral debut as a composer with the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra’s premiere of her piece, “Out of Ashes,” which was also a Finalist for the 2017 American Prize in Composition (Student Division).