Rudy Shackelford is an American composer. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Illinois (M.M. and D.M.A. 1971), where he studied composition with Gordon Binkerd. From 1971, he has been a freelance composer and writer, with occasional residences at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Ossabaw Island Project. He taught for a brief time at the Shenandoah Music School.
Shackelford has received commissions from the Hartt College International Contemporary Organ Music Festival, the Virginia Music Teachers' Association, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. His music has been published by Boosey & Hawkes and Edizioni Suvini Zerboni; Dallapiccola on Opera, edited and translated by Rudy Shackelford, was published in 1987 by Toccata Press, London.
