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 Doctor of Philosophy in composition from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, studying playwriting with Tina Howe and composition with David Delegate Tredici.
He taught at Baruch College, Emerson College, and the Boston Conservatory and now teaches at Xavier University in Louisiana.