The Israeli clarinetist Nur Ben Shalom performs regularly across Europe both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, giving concerts in a wide range of musical venues and festivals, including the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Musikverein Wien, the Lucerne Festival, Beethoven Fest Bonn, the Bamberger Konzertsaal, the Podium Festival Esslingen, the Richard-Wagner Festival, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, the German Parliament and many others.

Nur started to learn the clarinet in Tel Aviv at the age of 10 and won his first prizes at the Israeli Conservatory competition under his mentor Prof. Izhak Katap. He later continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Prof. Diethelm Kühn.

From an early age, Nur performed as a soloist with different orchestras, such as the Ra’anana Symphony orchestra, Ashdod Symphony Orchestra, the Jewish-Arab Orchestra and the Jerusalem Chamber Orchestra. He has collaborated with many musicians and artists, including Ivry Gitlis, Karl Leister, Tabea Zimmermann, Guy Braunstein, Claudio Bohórquez, Isabel Karajan and Iris Berben.

In 2022 Nur was the first to receive a prize and a special award from the David Shallon Foundation by the decision of the famous violist Tabea Zimmermann. 

Together with Berlin Philharmonic leader violinist Christophe Horak, the violist Francesca Zappa and the pianist Yannick van de Velde, Nur established the Nimrod Ensemble. This busy chamber music group gives concerts regularly and participates in TV, Radio, and media productions.

Nur is also the founder and the artistic director of the Lebensmelodien Project, astablished with Michael Raddatz and the Kirchenkreis Tempelhof-Schöneberg. The project aims to revive and highlight Jewish melodies and musical pieces that were composed, sung, or played between 1933 and 1945, bringing them back into the modern cultural discourses. Each melody has a story to tell. Each of them is tied to a specific person or community - created in the most inhuman situations of persecution or murder where music provided solace or hope. The project includes research work, live performances in acclaimed classical venues as well as in synagogues, churches, and Muslim centers. Another important  part of the project is the educational program for schools and youth which over a year and a half managed to reach over 300 different partners.

Nur has been involved in various other interdisciplinary projects, such as an ensemble for oriental and classical instruments with Muslim and Jewish members who “wander” between diverse European and Middle Eastern musical cultures, celebrating their cultural originality and reflecting the commonalities, similarities and inspiring possibilities for harmony between them.

Nur is also a member of the Erde Clarinet Quartet, which includes two winners of
the Geneva Clarinet Competition, and the solo bass clarinet of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The Erde Clarinet Quartet aims to enlarge the contemporary repertoire for clarinet quartets and present a new sound format for concerts.

Nur’s musical and cultural engagements are appreciated and recognised by several organisations and leaders, performed to the German chancellors, the President of Germany and the President of the Bundestag, Pope Francis and others.

Nur plays on Schwenk und Seggelke clarinets.