shirley song

Music Composer

Shirley Song is a composer for film, TV and visual Media. Her most recent credits include “XO, Kitty”, “A Tourist’s Guide To Love” and “Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star.” She is currently the composer for the upcoming Netflix animation series, “Exploding Kittens” and the Amazon film, “Five Blind Dates.”

Shirley Song is an Australian born Chinese composer who resides in the sunny city of Los Angeles. She is known for her work in composing music for various notable productions, including the upcoming Netflix TV show, “Exploding Kittens”, the Amazon Prime film, “Five Blind Dates”, the TV show spin off of "To All The Boys" film series, “XO, Kitty” (2023), the Netflix Romantic comedy, "A Tourist's Guide to Love” (2023) as well as the 2021 Christmas Netflix film "Princess Switch 3: Romancing The Star," featuring Vanessa Hudgens. 

Shirley has also contributed to numerous TV shows and films, including the 2020 Pixar film, “Onward” the 2019 “The Addams Family” animation, the HBO Max TV show, “Julia” (based on the life of renowned chef Julia Child), Disney’s "Mira, Royal Detective," the second season of the CBS series, "Strange Angel," Netflix’s “Alias Grace,” the Oscar nominated film “The Breadwinner,and the Dreamworks/Netflix animations, "Tales Of Arcadia: 3Below,” “Wizards" and “Trollhunters: Rise Of The Titans” created by Guillermo Del Toro.

A graduate of the University of Sydney/Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music (Composition)(Hons.) degree and Berklee College of Music's Film Scoring diploma, Shirley's concert music has been performed at prestigious venues across Sydney, including the Sydney Opera House.

In 2023, Shirley was selected as one of twelve composers for the Composer Filmmaker Accelerator program at the Vancouver International Film Festival (2023), where her piece was recorded and performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Currently, she is among eight composers chosen for the NBCUniversal Composers Initiative (2024-2026).

When Shirley isn’t composing or playing music, she can be found spoiling and pampering her furry friends, attempting to pat every dog she encounters, and training kickboxing and Muay Thai at her fight gym.