Clare Shore's Bio

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Clare Shore, the second woman to earn the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from The Juilliard School, has received critical acclaim for her works, with reviewers from the New York Times, New York Post, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and others hailing her works as "provocative" … "immensely dramatic" ... "unpretentious" ..." ingenious and evocative"… "intriguing"..."romantic to the core." While at Juilliard she studied with David Diamond, Vincent Persichetti, and Roger Sessions, and subsequently with Gunther Schuller.

She was granted the Irving Berlin Fellowship in Memory of Jerome Kern during her doctoral studies at Juilliard, as well as the Alexandre Gretchaninov Memorial Award. Since then, she has received numerous commissions, awards, and grants, among them the ASCAP Grant to Young Composers, annual ASCAP Standard Awards, Composers Assistance Grants from the American Music Center, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a fellowship to the Atlantic Center for the Arts, an Artist-in-Education Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Colorado Commission for the Arts, a grant from the Contemporary Record Society, numerous Meet-the-Composer Grants, and a Composer Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Shore's works have been performed in Carnegie Recital Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the National Gallery of Art, the Barns of WolfTrap, Charleston's Spoleto Festival, as well as throughout the U.S.A., Europe, and Australia. She has served as Composer in Residence at Palm Beach Atlantic University, has done residencies with the Colorado Recorder Festival, Hanover County School System, Dakota Wind Quintet, Charles Ives Center for American Music, was a Composing Fellow with Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a resident composer at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, an alternate in the Luce Scholars Program for Asian Internships.
 

She earned the Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, with Honors in Music, from Wake Forest University, earning a Teaching Certificate as well. While at Wake Forest Shore studied composition with Annette LeSiege, voice with Donald Hoirup, and oboe and saxophone with Davidson Burgess. She was awarded the Master of Music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, studying composition with Charles Eakin and Cecil Effinger, and voice with Louis Cunningham.
 

In addition to her work as a composer, Shore has led an active career as a mezzo-soprano and conductor. She performed with the Robert Shaw Chorale in Avery Fisher Hall and at Princeton University, and has been employed as staff singer with the Delray Beach Chorale, Miami's Bal Harbour Church-by-the-Sea, St. John in the Pines Episcopal Church, Wellington, FL, has served as Director of Music at Calvary United Methodist Church in Lake Worth, FL, and is currently a staff singer at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, FL.
 

Clare Shore holds memberships with ASCAP, the American Composers’ Forum, NACUSA, SCI,  IAWM (having served on the Board as Director of Concerts from 1995-1997), and previously served on the Board of its predecessor, AWC (President of the Virginia chapter in 1984).
 

She was awarded two teaching fellowships at Juilliard and has taught at Fordham University, Manhattan School of Music, the University of Virginia, George Mason University, Palm Beach Atlantic University, and Harid Conservatory. Shore’s works are published by E.C. Schirmer and Watchfyr Music. Her works are recorded on CRS, Owl Recordings, and Opus One, produced by Grammy Award-winning Elite Recordings.