Sheriffs Swanson (b. 1989) is a Brooklyn-based composer who came to music fashionably late. In 2016, he began studies with Jeremy Reinhold in composition and counterpoint as an adult student. Driven by curiosity and love of music, Sheriffs spent countless hours writing songs, self-studying theory, and catching up on everything he did not get through a formal music education.

In 2021, his string quartet "Can you hear the call of my beating heart?" (2019) was recognized as a semi-finalist for The American Prize: Ernst Bacon Memorial Award. Later that year, Sheriffs was accepted to the Mannes School of Music. There, he studied composition privately with David T. Little and Robert Cuckson as part of his M.M. in Music Composition. After graduating, Sheriffs was accepted into the 2023 Mostly Modern Festival, where he had a world premiere of a set of three "Love Songs" written for mezzo-soprano and piano.

This summer, Sheriffs graduated from the 2024 cohort of the Gabriela Ortiz Composition Studio, a six-month creative lab run in partnership with Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. He then premiered new work for the 2024 ICEBERG Institute at the University of Central Florida.

He enjoys early mornings, watching Street Fighter tournaments, and hanging out with his wife, who made this website.