Shelly Devlin received her Bachelor of Music in Trumpet Performance and Education from the University of Iowa and her Master of Music in Trumpet Performance from the University of Washington.  She currently serves as adjunct trumpet instructor at Pierce College in Puyallup, Washington.  Since 2000, her private studio, Shelly Devlin Brass Studios, has taught 70 trumpet and horn students per week.  Shelly's students have seen successful performances at recitals and statewide music festivals, and many of her students have had the honor of being accepted into All- State, All-Northwest, local youth symphonies, and college music programs.  Shelly has served as brass coach and clinician to Northwest Washington area schools, adjudicated Solo and Ensemble Festival for the Washington Music Educators Association, taught High Brass Techniques to undergraduate music majors at the University of Washington, served as brass coach for the Kitsap Youth Philharmonic, and conducted Brass Camps throughout the Puget Sound region.  

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An active performer, Shelly currently plays principal trumpet with the Bremerton West Sound Symphony, flugelhorn with the Evergreen Brass, and trumpet with the Choppers Brass Quintet and the Choppers Brass Trio.  Shelly's solo appearances include Telemann's Sonata  for piccolo trumpet and Handel's Messiah with the Bremerton West Sound Symphony and Northwest Chorale; Vincent Persichetti's The Hollow Men with the Pierce College Orchestra; Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez for flugelhorn with the Evergreen Brass; and McKee's Centennial Horizon and Turrin's arrangement of Gershwin's Someone to Watch Over Me with the Pierce College Concert Band.  Shelly's recent solo recital appearances include works for trumpet and piano on the Marysville Chamber Music Series and works for trumpet and organ on the Silverdale Lutheran Church Friday Night Concert Series.  Shelly formerly served as a trumpeter with Navy Band Northwest and has been sponsored on several solo tours to the Midwest.  Current projects include the commission and recording of new trumpet and piano works by composers Gina Gillie and Nick Colletto.  In 2025, she penned her own composition, A Rough Night at the Cantina,  which had its premiere performance at the 2025 Washington Trumpet Guild Festival.