Rodney Sharman was born in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1958. He is a graduate of the University of Victoria School of Music, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg, Germany and the State University of New York at Buffalo, from which he received a PhD in music in 1991. His former teachers include Murray Adaskin, Rudolf Komorous, Brian Ferneyhough and Morton Feldman for composition and Aurèle Nicolet for flute. During 1983-84 he was guest composer at the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht, Netherlands. His works have been performed in Canada and abroad at major festivals of contemporary music including the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music to which he was invited as guest lecturer in 1988 and 1990. In 1990 Rodney Sharman was awarded the Kranichsteiner Prize in composition. Rodney Sharman Website