{{Short description|Israeli-American musical artist}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = | image = | image_size = 220 | native_name = אורי שחיבר | native_name_lang = he | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} | birth_place = Tel Aviv, Israel | genre = Classical | occupation = Pianist, pedagogue | instrument = Piano | website = {{URL|www.oryshihor.com}} }}
'''Ory Shihor''' ({{Langx|he|אורי שחיבר}}) is an Israeli-American pianist, pedagogue, and co-founder of the California based Ory Shihor Institute.<ref name="Bachauer NYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/20/arts/3-pianists-awarded-bachauer-prizes.html|title=3 Pianists Awarded Bachauer Prizes|date=20 June 1988|work=The New York Times|page=18|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref> Shihor performs, lectures, holds masterclasses and serves on the juries of international piano competitions.
Shihor was the founder of the Colburn Music Academy and served as its dean between 2010 and 2017.<ref name="Yamaha Bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.yamaha.com/artists/artistdetailb.html?CNTID=7073418&CTID=5070200 | title=Classical Pianists | date=2018}}</ref> He also served as piano professor at the Colburn Conservatory between 2008 and 2019.<ref name="Colburn School">{{cite news|url=https://www.bppe.ca.gov/annual_report/2012/18430979_cat.pdf|title=Colburn School 2011 Annual Report Catalog|date=2011|page=37}}</ref><ref name="Guest Pianist">{{cite web|url=https://spiral.lynn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=conservatory_mostlymusic| title=Lynn University | date=2012}}</ref><ref name="Instant Encore">{{cite web|url=https://www.instantencore.com/contributor/photos/albums.aspx?CId=5112906&PhotoAlbumId=20064&PhotoId=2043 | title=Colburn Commencement 2008 | date=2008}}</ref>
Shihor was born in Tel Aviv. Success as a pianist came early for him. At the age of twelve he began receiving scholarships from the America Israel Cultural Foundation and within three years he was studying at the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States.<ref name="America-Israel Cultural Foundation">{{cite web|url=https://aicf.org/artist/ory-shihor/ | title=Ory Shihor | date=2012}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
As a child in Tel Aviv, Shihor studied under Neima Rosh and later with Dr. Emanuel Krasovsky. He was a recipient of America Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships from the age of twelve.<ref name="Bachauer NYT"/><ref name="America-Israel Cultural Foundation"/> At fifteen, he came to the United States to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia under the pianist Jorge Bolet. Shihor graduated from the Juilliard School in New York City with a Bachelor of Music after studying under pianist and pedagogue Russell Sherman.<ref name="Kozinn NYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/01/arts/debuts-flutist-chooses-program-of-rarities.html|title=Debutes|date=1 May 1988|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
==Career==
Shihor's professional career has included performances at The Kennedy Center, Ravinia Festival in Chicago, The Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, Dusseldorf's Tonhalle in Germany, 92nd Street "Y" in New York, and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.<ref name="Kozinn NYT"/><ref name="America-Israel Cultural Foundation"/><ref name="Washington Post">{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2000/11/21/classical-music/fd99c704-0c49-40dc-aecb-2a15225d2346/ | title=The Washington Post: Classical Music | date=2000}}</ref><ref name="The Wallis">{{cite web|url=http://thewallis.org/shihor | title=Beethovan's Most Beloved Sonatas | date=2020}}</ref>
Shihor was awarded the Gina Bachauer Prize while at the Juilliard School, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition and first prize at the Washington International Piano Competition.<ref name="Bachauer NYT"/><ref name="YCA">{{cite web|url=https://www.yca.org/roster/alumni/ | title=Young Concert Artists Alumni | date=2020}}</ref><ref name="Arthur Rubinstein">{{cite web|url=https://arims.org.il/laureate/ory-shihor/ | title=Arthur Rubinstein: Ory Shihor | date=1998}}</ref><ref name="Yamaha Bio"/>
Shihor joined the faculty of the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles in 2009 and served as professor of piano until 2019, while there, he founded the Colburn Music Academy for young artists and served as its dean from 2010 until 2017.<ref name="Colburn School"/><ref name="Instant Encore"/>
Shihor regularly serves as juror at many international competitions, including the James Mottram International Piano Competition (UK), the Arthur Rubinstein Junior Piano Competition (China), the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition and the Young Artist Piano Competition at Emory University (USA). In 2017 he was invited to join the judging panel of the TV series "Wonderkids," which was filmed in Ho Chi Minh City and aired on Vietnam's HTV3.<ref name="Starbox">{{cite web|url=http://starbox.vn/co-be-9-tuoi-tung-bi-tram-cam-dang-quang-than-dong-am-nhac-mua-dau-tien.html | title=Music Prodigy | date=2017}}</ref><ref name="Broadway Article">{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/hawaii/article/Aloha-International-Piano-Festival-Features-Debut-Of-Ory-Shihor-20180507 | title=Aloha International Piano Festival | date=7 May 2018}}</ref><ref name="Emory">{{cite web|url=http://arts.emory.edu/documents/concert-programs/2018-19/1_26_19%20Piano%20Competition%20Final%20Round_Final.pdf | title=Young Artist Piano Comp. | date=2012}}</ref><ref name="RNCM">{{cite web|url=https://www.rncm.ac.uk/uploads/jmipc_2012.pdf | title=RNCM James Mottram International Piano Comp. | date=2012}}</ref><ref name="Wonderkids">{{cite web|url=https://vietdaily.vn/truyen-hinh/tieu-thu-duong-cam-van-anh-dang-quang-wonderkids-than-dong-am-nhac-2017.html | title=Wonderkids | date=2017}}</ref>
As a performing artist, Shihor is noted for being "boldly individualistic" (''New York Times'') and "not afraid to take risks" (''The Washington Post'').<ref name="Washington Post"/><ref name="Kozinn NYT"/><ref name="USA IMAE">{{cite web|url=https://musicusa.us/en/ | title=IMAE Music Festival | date=2020}}</ref><ref name="San Diego Center">{{cite web|url=https://www.lfjcc.org/common/pdf/PerformingArtsSeries/PASLLCurrentSeason1112.pdf | title=Performing Arts Center | date=2012}}</ref><ref name="Footlights">{{cite web|url=https://footlights.click/2017/05/04/the-wallis-announces-201718-season/ | title=Last Thoughts: Schubert's Final Works | date=2018}}</ref> He is a Bösendorfer and Yamaha artist.<ref name="Yamaha Bio"/><ref name="Keyboard Concepts">{{cite web|url=https://keyboardconcepts.com/ | title=Ory Shihor, Bösendorfer & Yamaha Artist, In Concert | date=2020}}</ref><ref name="Bosendorfer">{{cite web|url=https://www.boesendorfer.com/en/artists/ory-shihor | title=Ory Shihor | date=2020}}</ref>
==Awards== *1986, 1st Prize Winner, Young Concert Artists<ref name="YCA"/><ref name="Yamaha Bio"/> *1988, 1st Prize Winner, Gina Bachauer Prize, Juilliard<ref name="Bachauer NYT"/> *1998, Prize Winner, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition<ref name="Arthur Rubinstein"/> *1999, 1st prize, Washington International Piano Competition<ref name="America-Israel Cultural Foundation"/>
==Projects==
In 1993, Shihor toured as soloist with the Liege Philharmonique of Belgium for their 15-city North American tour.<ref name="Liege">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/nyregion/when-the-baton-drops-get-ready-for-world-premieres-and-old-favorites.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm | title=Liege Philharmonic of Belgium | date=1993}}</ref>
Shihor performed all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas during a series of 8 concerts in Zipper Hall in Los Angeles between 2005 and 2007.<ref name="Beethoven Tempest">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3N58G9DRaA | title=Beethoven Sonata No.17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 'Tempest' | date=2008}}</ref><ref name="Performing Arts">{{cite web|url=https://www.performingartslive.com/Events/Faculty-Recital-Ory-Shihor-piano-113201113384 | title=Faculty Recital: Ory Shihor, Piano | date=2012}}</ref>
Judge, Wonderkids TV Series, HTV3, Vietnam, 2017 <ref name="VN">{{cite web|url=http://tuanbaovannghetphcm.vn/giao-luu-voi-hai-nghe-si-piano-quoc-te-ory-shihor-bich-tra/ | title=Meeting with Two International Pianists | date=2017}}</ref><ref name="Starbox"/>
Shihor's concert-drama 'Last Thoughts: Schubert's Final Works', written by Hershey Felder, premiered in 2018 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.<ref name="All Events">{{cite web|url=https://allevents.in/beverly%20hills/last-thoughts-schuberts-final-works-ory-shihor-piano/1686553284750277 | title=Last Thoughts: Schubert's Final Works | date=2018}}</ref><ref name="Footlights"/>
Shihor's 'Beethoven's Most Beloved Sonatas,' will premiere at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in April 2020.<ref name="The Wallis"/><ref name="Beverly Press">{{cite web|url=https://beverlypress.com/2019/05/57576/ | title=High-flying season planned for the Wallis | date=2020}}</ref><ref name="Keyboard Concepts"/>
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