Shelley Hirsch

Shelley Hirsch was born and raised in East New York, Brooklyn. She is a vocal artist, performer, composer, storyteller, writer, and interdisciplinary artist who has been pushing the boundaries of vocal art for decades in her compositions, improvisations, readings, and performance work, consistently drawing on life experiences and memory as primary compositional materials.

Her practice spans free improvisation, electroacoustic composition, performance art, and narrative song, developing a distinctively personal vocabulary that is simultaneously playful, political, and emotionally direct.