Composer-in-Residence

Alexey Shor was born in Ukraine 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 Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan.

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, Berlin Classics and Melodiya. 

Mr. Shor is the Composer-In-Residence for the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Academie and Armenian State Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Shor’s works have been performed by many internationally acclaimed soloists and ensembles, for example (in alphabetical order), Behzod Abduraimov, Salvatore Accardo, Anna Aglatova, Boris Allakhverdyan, Boris Andrianov, Nareh Arghamanyan, Alena Baeva, Andrey Baranov, Marc Bouchkov, Guy Braunstein, Shirley Brill, Gautier Capuçon, David Aaron Carpenter, Ray Chen, Stella Chen, Jasmine Choi, Francesca Dego, Sergei Dogadin, Veronika Dzhioeva, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Remi Geniet, Alexander Ghindin, Andrey Gugnin, Andrei Ioniță, Steven Isserlis, Anna Kasyan, Haik Kazazyan, Freddy Kempf, Khachaturian Trio, Vadym Kholodenko, Alexander Kniazev, Evgeny Kissin, Philipp Kopachevsky, Denis Kozukhin, Sergey Krylov, Victor Julien Laferrière, Ji Young Lim, Jan Lisitski, Daniel Lozakovich, Paul Meyer, Shlomo Mintz, Fumiaki Miura, Nikita Mndoyants, Andreas Ottensamer, Duo Paratore, Mikhail Pletnev, Costanza Principe, Alexander Ramm, Vadim Repin, Alexander Romanovsky, Jonathan Roozeman, Gil Shaham, Karen Shahgaldyan, Zia Hyunsu Shin, Yeol Eum Son, Alessandro Taverna, Maxim Vengerov, Trio Wanderer, Ingolf Wunder, Nikolaj Znaider and many others.

He also holds a Ph.D. in mathematics.