Dan Shore
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Dan Shore (born 1975) is an American composer and playwright from Allentown, Pennsylvania, whose works include The Beautiful Bridegroom, An Embarrassing Position, Travel, Works of Mercy, and Lady Orchid.
Education
Shore attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he studied composition with Lee Hyla, Malcolm Peyton, and Scott Wheeler. He spent four years as a composer and lyricist in the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and studied opera composition in Denmark on a Fulbright Program grant. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where studied playwriting with Tina Howe and composition with David Del Tredici.
Compositions
His comic opera The Beautiful Bridegroom, based on the play "Den forvandlede Brudgom" by Ludvig Holberg, was awarded first prize in the National Opera Association's Chamber Opera Composition Competition in 2009. Written for a cast of six sopranos, it has been produced over thirty times.{{cite news|last=Duckett |first=Richard |title=Opera Works' Next Sounds 'Mozart-ian|url=http://www.telegram.com/article/20080217/NEWS/802170456/1110|accessdate=October 23, 2011|newspaper=Worcester Telegram and Gazette|date=February 17, 2008}} Another comic opera, An Embarrassing Position, based on a sketch by the same name by Kate Chopin, received a Big Easy Entertainment Award in 2011.{{cite news|last=Coviello|first=Will|title=Classical Arts Awards|url=http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/classical-arts-awards/Content?oid=1571463|accessdate=October 23, 2011|newspaper=Gambit Weekly|date=February 15, 2011|archive-date=February 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219093452/http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/classical-arts-awards/Content?oid=1571463|url-status=dead}} It also received first prize in the National Opera Association's Chamber Opera Composition Competition, in 2013.{{cite web|title=Dominick Argento Chamber Opera Competition|url=http://www.noa.org/competitions/chamber.html|publisher=National Opera Association|accessdate=March 19, 2019}} His most recent project is the opera Freedom Ride, which commemorates the 1961 Freedom Rides.{{cite news|last=Andrews |first=Travis |title=Short-run Opera showcases Civil Rights Movement activists|url=http://www.louisianaweekly.com/short-run-opera-showcases-civil-rights-movement-activists/|accessdate=October 23, 2011|newspaper=Louisiana Weekly|date=October 17, 2011}} Scenes from the opera were previewed at a 2011 gala hosted by Longue Vue House and Gardens, which originally commissioned the opera.{{cite news|last=Waddington|first=Chris|title=Xavier prof pens opera set in New Orleans during Civil Rights struggles|url=http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2011/10/xavier_prof_pens_opera_set_in.html|accessdate=October 23, 2011|newspaper=New Orleans Times-Picayune|date=October 15, 2011}} In August 2016, a suite of excerpts from the opera was performed in Mexico City with La Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería.{{cite news|last1=Chávez|first1=Guillermo Juárez|title=El Unísono Espiritual de Minería|url=http://www.urbepolitica.com/?id=nota&seccion=ocio&ide=479|accessdate=11 January 2017|work=Urbe Política|date=September 5, 2016}} The completed opera will have its world premiere in 2020 at Chicago Opera Theater, conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya and directed by Tazewell Thompson.{{cite news|last1=Morris|first1=Keegan|title=Chicago Opera Theater announces 2019-20 season with a complete slate of Chicago premieres|url=https://www.wfmt.com/2019/03/14/chicago-opera-theater-announces-2019-20-season-with-a-complete-slate-of-chicago-premieres/
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Academia
Shore has taught at Baruch College in New York City, Emerson College in Boston, and Xavier University in New Orleans, and now teaches at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
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Category:American classical composers
Category:American opera composers
Category:Baruch College faculty
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Category:American male opera composers
Category:Musicians from Allentown, Pennsylvania
Category:New England Conservatory alumni
Category:Xavier University of Louisiana faculty
Category:CUNY Graduate Center alumni
Category:Writers from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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