Dan Shore

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, 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 with Andy Pape on a Fulbright grant. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, studying playwriting with Tina Howe and composition with David Del Tredici. He taught at Baruch College, Emerson College, and Xavier University, and now teaches at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

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.[1] 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.[2] It also received first prize in the National Opera Association's Chamber Opera Composition Competition, in 2013. [3] His most recent project is the opera Freedom Ride, which commemorates the 1961 Freedom Rides.[4] Scenes from the opera were previewed at a 2011 gala hosted by Longue Vue House and Gardens, which originally commissioned the opera.[5] In August 2016, a suite of excerpts from the opera was performed in Mexico City with La Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería.[6] The completed opera will have its world premiere in 2020 at Chicago Opera Theater, conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya and directed by Tazewell Thompson.[7]

References
  1. Duckett, Richard (February 17, 2008). "Opera Works' Next Sounds 'Mozart-ian". Worcester Telegram and Gazette. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  2. Coviello, Will (February 15, 2011). "Classical Arts Awards". Gambit Weekly. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  3. "Dominick Argento Chamber Opera Competition". National Opera Association. Retrieved March 19, 2019.
  4. Andrews, Travis (October 17, 2011). "Short-run Opera showcases Civil Rights Movement activists". Louisiana Weekly. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  5. Waddington, Chris (October 15, 2011). "Xavier prof pens opera set in New Orleans during Civil Rights struggles". New Orleans Times-Picayune. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  6. Chávez, Guillermo Juárez (September 5, 2016). "El Unísono Espiritual de Minería". Urbe Política. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
  7. Morris, Keegan (March 14, 2019). "Chicago Opera Theater announces 2019-20 season with a complete slate of Chicago premieres". WFMT. Retrieved March 19, 2019.


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