Alexey Shor has been born and raised in Ukraine. He left Soviet Union to study mathematics in the United States. Currently, he spends most of his time in New York.
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. Mr Shor’s music has been showcased on Fox Business News and the websites of Bloomberg News, the New Yorker, Yahoo and the Huffington Post. The Overture to his ballet “Crystal Palace” was performed at the 40th Gramophone Classical Music Awards ceremony in London. In 2018 he was awarded an honorary professorship at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan. In 2023/2024 season Mr.Shor has served as Yehudi Menuhin School’s associate composer. Mr. Shor is the Composer-In-Residence for the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra. For the 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 seasons he has also been appointed at the Composer-In-Residence for the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mr. Shor’s scores are published by Breitkopf & Hartel and Universal Edition.
CDs with his compositions have been issued by Warner Classics, DECCA, SONY Classics, Naxos, and others. See here for details.
Many internationally acclaimed artists have performed Mr Shor’s music, including (in alphabetical order) Behzod Abduraimov, Salvatore Accardo, Gautier Capuçon, Ray Chen, Steven Isserlis, Clara-Jumi Kang, Evgeny Kissin, Denis Kozukhin, Shlomo Mintz, Mikhail Pletnev, Gil Shaham, Yeol Eum Son, Yekwon Sunwoo, Maxim Vengerov, Nikolaj Znaider and many others.
Mr Shor also holds a Ph.D. in mathematics.
