Clare Shore is an American composer, music educator, mezzo-soprano, and conductor.
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 Ms. Shore studied with David Diamond, Vincent Persichetti, Roger Sessions, and later with Gunther Schuller.
She was granted the prestigious 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 1983 Grant to Young Composers, annual ASCAP Standard Awards since 1982, Composers Assistance Grants from the American Music Center, a MacDowell 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 since 1980, 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., the British Isles, 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.
In addition to her work as a composer, Shore has led an active career as mezzo-soprano and conductor. She performed with the Robert Shaw Chorale in Avery Fisher Hall and at Princeton University, and has been employed as alto section leader with the Delray Beach Chorale, Miami's Bal Harbour Church-by-the-Sea, St. John in the Pines Episcopal Church, Wellington, FL, and has served as Director of Music at Calvary United Methodist Church in Lake Worth, FL. Shore is currently a staff singer at the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, FL.
Clare Shore holds memberships with ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, NACUSA, SCI, IAWM (serving on the Board as Director of Concerts from 1995-1997), and was on the Board of its predecessor, AWC from 1983-1995 (President of the Virginia chapter in 1984).
Ms. Shore was awarded two teaching fellowships at Juilliard, and has taught at Fordham University, Manhattan School of Music, the University of Virginia, George Mason University and Palm Beach Atlantic University.
