Eugene Sor
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, cellist Eugene Sor
enjoys a variety of musical endeavors. His chamber music
career began as a co-founder of the Chamberlain String
Quartet, with whom he shared teaching assistantships at San
Francisco State and Cal-State Hayward Universities. Later, as
cellist for the Volta String Quartet, he appeared as a semifinalist in the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music
Competition and in several concerts in the U.S. and Canada.
In 2003, eager to explore an even greater body of chamber
music masterpieces, he helped to establish the Sor Ensemble, a
group devoted to performing chamber works for combinations
other than the string quartet.
In addition to his work with the Sor Ensemble, Eugene currently serves as Principal
Cellist of the Stockton Symphony and performs frequently with the Santa Rosa
Symphony and San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. He is a longtime faculty member of
the Crowden School of Music in Berkeley and is Music Director of the Fremont Youth
Symphony. He also conducts the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra’s Debut Ensemble.
During his leisure time Eugene avidly plays tournament bridge and annually allows the
San Francisco Giants to disappoint him bitterly. He and his violinist wife Karen
Shinozaki Sor live happily in Richmond with their two cats Ellie and Bass.