About our Composer in Residence
Alexey Shor is the Composer in Residence of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2024-2026 seasons.
Alexey Shor was born and raised in Ukraine. He left the 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 in the world, including the Wiener Musikverein, Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Kyiv Conservatory, The Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Gasteig (Munich), Wigmore Hall (London), Teatro Argentina (Rome) and many others.
Concerts with his music have been broadcast on medici.tv, Mezzo and Euronews, amongst others. 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 2022, Mr. Shor was appointed as the Yehudi Menuhin School’s first associate composer. He has been the Composer-In-Residence for the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra since 2017, and in the 2024-2026 seasons he will also perform that role 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 Naxos, Warner Classics, DECCA, SONY Classics, and others.
Many internationally acclaimed artists have performed Mr. Shor’s music, including 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 Szeps-Znaider and many more.
Mr. Shor also holds a Ph.D. in mathematics.