Joseph Shore

Joseph Shore (16 April 1948 - 6 July 2021) was an American operatic Baritone and voice teacher.

Fellow apprentices included Ashley Putnam, Vinson Cole, and Chris Merritt.

[4] Among his students in the pop field were Alexz Johnson and Michael Bublé, and in opera Campbell Vertesi, Bryn Vertesi, David Fankhauser,[5] Davide di Ragusa,[6] Siphiwe McKenzie, Le Roy Jameson, Tyler Lincoln,[7] and Paul Grindlay.

[8] His most famous student was Jerome Hines himself who studied informally with Shore and dedicated his book, The Four Voices of Man,[9] to him.

Then 58 years old, he contracted lung disease due to heart complications and had to retire from professional singing.