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Alexey Shor was born in Kiev in 1970, immigrated to Israel in 1991, and now lives primarily in the USA.
His compositions have been performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls, including Wiener Musikverein, Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg), Kremlin Palace (Moscow), The Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Gasteig (Munich), Wigmore Hall (London), Teatro Argentina (Rome) and many others. Concerts with his music have been broadcast on MediciTV, Mezzo and Euronews. The Overture to his ballet “Crystal Palace” was performed at the 40th Gramophone Classical Music Awards ceremony in London. In 2018 he has been awarded an honorary professorship at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory.
Mr. Shor’s scores are published by Breitkopf & Hartel and P.Jurgenson.
CDs with his compositions have been issued by Warner Classics, DECCA, SONY Classics, Delos and Melodiya. See here for details.
Mr. Shor is the Composer-In-Residence for the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Academie, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and Salomé Chamber Orchestra. In 2017-2021 he is also a Composer-in-Residence of the Malta International Music Festival and PianoCompetition, as well as the preliminary competitions leading up to the final competitions in Malta (in 2018 and 2021).
Mr. Shor’s works have been performed by many internationally acclaimed soloists and ensembles, for example (in alphabetical order), Salvatore Accardo, Anna Aglatova, Boris Allakhverdyan, Boris Andrianov, Nareh Arghamanyan, Guy Braunstein, David Aaron Carpenter, Ray Chen, Veronika Dzhioeva, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Andrei Ioniță, Haik Kazazyan, Freddy Kempf, Khachaturian Trio, Denis Kozukhin, Ji Young Lim, Jan Lisitski, Shlomo Mintz, Andreas Ottensamer, Duo Paratore, Vadim Repin, Alexander Romanovsky, Karen Shahgaldyan, Maxim Vengerov, Trio Wanderer, Ingolf Wunder, Nikolaj Znaider and many others.
He also holds a Ph.D. in mathematics.