Shelly Berg

While in Miami, he earned his first Grammy nomination in the category "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)" for his arrangement of "Out There" on Lorraine Feather's album Tales of the Unusual (Jazzed Media). He was nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award in the category Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) category for his arrangement of "What a Wonderful World" on Gloria Estefan: The Standards. He was nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award in the Best Arrangement Instrumental and Vocals category for his arrangement of "Be My Muse" on the Lorraine Feather album Flirting with Disaster (Jazzed Media), and nominated again in 2017 for his medley arrangement of "There's a Boat that's Leaving Soon for New York / I Loves You Porgy" recorded on the Clint Holmes album Rendezvous (Concord).

Shelly Berg is Dean of the Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, appointed in 2007. In addition, he is a master teacher for the Frost Experiential Music Curriculum.

Berg also worked with Hollywood studio arranger-orchestrator Dick Marx and Tom Halm at Sunset Sound Recording Studios. He was a composer and arranger for the CBS television series A League of Their Own (1993), the weekly ABC television series Fudge (1995-1997), and was orchestrator for the motion picture Almost Heroes. He recorded critically acclaimed albums with the Shelly Berg Trio including The Joy (DMP, 1995), The Will: A Tribute to Oscar Peterson (CARS, 1998), and Blackbird (Concord Records, 2005). In 2006, he arranged most of the songs on the album entitled Ray Sings, Basie Swings (Concord, 2006) and was music director and pianist on the Great Performances television show We Love Ella! A Tribute to the First Lady of Song (PBS, 2007).

Berg moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991 to join the music faculty at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. He was the McCoy/Sample Endowed Professor of Jazz 2004-2007; Chair of Jazz Studies, 1994-2004; Professor, 1998-2007; Associate Professor, 1995-1998; and Assistant Professor, 1991–1995. He served as president of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE), 1996-1998; was named one of three "Educators for the Millennium" by The Los Angeles Times, 1999; and received the Dean's Award for Scholarship and Research, USC Thornton School of Music, 2005.

Berg began his career at San Jacinto College North in Northshore, Texas, as Chair of Instrumental Music, 1979–1981. He then served as Chair of Instrumental Music and Commercial Music at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas from 1981–1991. He performed extensively in professional groups including Larry and Marilyn and the Brass Connection, featuring trumpeter Larry Martinez and singer Marilyn Savage. He learned to play Latin montunos from Kido Zapata during this time. He composed and arranged music for regional and national advertising campaigns, and maintained an active performing and recording career with artists ranging from Country music singer Mickey Gilley to jazz trombonist Bill Watrous.

He earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance (1977, summa cum laude) and a Master of Music in Piano Performance (Composition, Conducting, 1979, summa cum laude) from the University of Houston School of Music where he studied piano with Albert Hirsh and Abbey Simon and was the student conductor for choir and orchestra. During his freshman year he subbed for a week with the Woody Herman Band, and performed throughout his college career with a variety of touring professional artists. He also served as a lecturer at the University of Houston, 1979–1981, and a teaching assistant in music theory, 1977–1979.

Shelton "Shelly" Glen Berg (born August 18, 1955) is an American pianist, composer, arranger, orchestrator, and producer. He is the Dean and Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.