Rodney Sharman (born 1958) lives in Vancouver, Canada, where he is Composer-in-Residence with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. His music has been performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Arditti String Quartet, the Nieuw Ensemble, the Ives Ensemble, harpists Erica Goodman and Ernestine Stoop, harpsichordist Colin Tilney, flutist Camilla Hoitenga, pianists Yvar Mikhashoff, Anthony de Mare and John Snijders, among others. His former teachers include Brian Ferneyhough and Morton Feldman. In 1990 he was awarded the Kranichsteiner Music Prize in composition at Darmstadt, Germany. Performances of his work in the 1997-98 season include the premiere of the opera Elsewhereless, with libretto by film-maker Atom Egoyan and design by Michael Levine, Tapestry Music Theatre, Toronto, and a new work for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Rodney Sharman (1958) si è laureato alla University of Victoria School of Music (Victoria, B.C.), alla Staatliche Hochschule für Neue Musik (Freiburg, Germany) e alla State University of New York at Buffalo, dove ha conseguito il Ph.D. nel 1991. Ha studiato con Murray Adaskin, Rudolf Komorous, Brian Ferneyhough, Morton Feldman, Frederic Rzewski and Lucas Foss. Durante il 1983-84 è stato invitato all’Institute of Sonology (Utrecht, Netherlands), nel 1990-91 ha insegnato composizione e storia della musica a Wiifried Laurier University and in 1991-92, inoltre composizione e orchestrazione all’University of British Columbia School of Music. Dal 1992-95 ha insegnato alla School for Contemporary Arts and Graduate Liberal Studies a Simon Fraser University. I suoi lavori sono eseguiti regolarmente i molti paesi ed è regolarmente invitato nei maggiori Festival di musica contemporanea. Nel 1990 ha ottenuto il Kranichsteiner Music Prize. Rodney Sharman è stato Presidente del Canadian League of Composers (CLC) dal 1993 è sato presidente della Canadian Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISMC) negli anni 1991-95.