Leonard Shure (April 10, 1910 in Los Angeles – February 28, 1995 in Nantucket, Massachusetts) was an American concert pianist.
[1] Shure graduated from the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin[clarification needed] in 1927, at which time he made his debut in Germany.
[2] Shure returned to the United States in 1933 and made his first concert appearance in New York City with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting.
In 1941 Shure became the first pianist to perform at the Berkshire Music Festival in Tanglewood, when he appeared there with Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
In 1946 he performed the complete Beethoven sonata cycle with violinist Henri Temianka at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.