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.
Shihor graduated from the Juilliard School in New York City with a Bachelor of Music after studying under pianist and pedagogue Russell Sherman.
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.
[12][13][14][15][16] As a performing artist, Shihor is noted for being "boldly individualistic" (New York Times) and "not afraid to take risks" (The Washington Post).
[23][24] Judge, Wonderkids TV Series, HTV3, Vietnam, 2017 [25][12] 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.