Alexey Shor has been the composer-in-residence for the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra since 2017 and will also hold this role for the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in 2024-26.
Composer Biography
Alexey Shor holds a PhD in mathematics in addition to his musical career.
Composition History
The work Childhood Memories, Suite for Piano and Orchestra No. 3, originated in 2016 as a fourteen-movement piece for solo piano, which Alexey Shor later adapted into a nine-movement suite for piano and orchestra.
Compositional Technique
Childhood Memories, Suite for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 functions as a musical bildungsroman, tracing a persona's journey from early childhood to adolescence through its nine movements.
Composition History
Alexey Shor's Verdiana, a fantasy on themes by Giuseppe Verdi, was composed for a tour of Latin America.
Composer Biography
Alexey Shor, the composer, was born and raised in Ukraine, later moving to the United States to study mathematics, and currently resides in New York.
Compositional Technique
Verdiana, Alexey Shor's tribute to Giuseppe Verdi, re-imagines Verdi's famous melodies in Latin styles such as samba, bossa nova, and tango.
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