Nigel Shore is one of today’s most sought-after oboists internationally. The English artist played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra before becoming principal 1^st oboe at the Komische Oper Berlin. For 15 years, Nigel has been the principal oboist of the Kammerorchester Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach. During this time, he built his international solo career and concert engagements have taken him regularly to Japan, the Middle East, North, South and Central America, Russia and throughout Europe, from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to the Philharmonie in Berlin and the Gasteig in Munich, for concerts with many acclaimed artists such as Hartmut Haenchen, Jochen Kowalski, Paco de Lucia, Helmuth Rilling, Peter Schreier, Saulius Sondeckis, and Frank-Peter Zimmermann.

Some highlights of his solo career include: the world premiere of the Oboe Concerto written for him by Roger Steptoe; Bach's Concerto in A major for Oboe d'amore in the composer's church in Koethen under the direction of Peter Schreier; the concerto by Richard Strauss in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London for the opening concert of the Covent Garden Festival; a performance of the Doppio Concerto by Hans Werner Henze in the Montepulciano Festival in the presence of the composer; gala concerts in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, with concertos by Bach, Mozart and Strauss, which were broadcast on Russian television.

Nigel Shore has always been a very active chamber musician. He is a founding member of the Berlin Oboe Quartet, which has commissioned and recorded many important new works for oboe and string trio, of Ensemble Aureus which undertook concert and educational work worldwide for the Goethe-Institute and of KO5, the Wind Quintet of the Komische Oper Berlin, which continues the lively tradition of wind chamber music established at the Komische Oper in a regular series of Berlin concerts. He is also a regular guest of the renowned Spectrum Concerts series in Berlin. Nigel has been a guest of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, touring to Brazil and the United States as well as participating on CD recordings.

As an orchestral oboist, Nigel Shore has been a guest of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (Sir Neville Marriner), the Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Hartmut Haenchen), the Kammerorchester Berlin (Katrin Scholz), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Christian Thielemann), the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (Daniel Barenboim), the Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin (Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos), the Berliner Sinfonieorchester (Michael Gielen) and the Orquesta de Cadaqués (Edmon Colomer). His work with the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling has taken him as an oboist and a coach to Buenos Aires ("St. Matthew Passion" / Teatro Colón), Eugene, Oregon ("Christmas Oratorio" / Oregon Bach Festival), Cracow, Poland ("Messiah" / Filharmonia) and Caracas, Venezuela ("Elijah" / Fesnojiv) as well as to the European Music Festival, Stuttgart as a regular coach for the Festival Ensemble. In 2008 Nigel Shore spent a year in Brazil as principal 1st oboe of the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro.