Bernard Shore (17 March 1896 – 2 April 1985) was an English viola player and author. Shore studied at the Royal College of Music from 1912, with Sir Walter Alcock (organ), Arthur Bent (viola) and Thomas Dunhill (composition), but his time there was interrupted by the war. Returning after 1918 with an injured right hand - he had lost two fingers - Shore focused on viola playing rather than the organ, becoming a pupil of Lionel Tertis. From 1922 on he was an orchestral player, first with the Queen’s Hall Orchestra under Henry Wood and (from 1930) as principal viola of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. There is an HMV Treasury recording of a performance of Elgar's Introduction and Allegro with the orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult with Shore as part of the solo quartet. It was recorded on 24