Oren Shevlin was born in England in 1969, he studied with Raphael Sommer, Boris Pergamenschikow and Frans Helmerson. He received lessons from Paul Tortelier at an early age.

He was a prizewinner at the ARD International Music Competition in the Cello-Piano Duo, won second prize at the International Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki, and was awarded the 2nd Grand Prix at the Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris in 2001.

As a soloist he has appeared with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Polish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris and Orchestre National de France, WDR Symphony Orchestra and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, under the direction of conductors such as Sir André Previn, Christoph Eschenbach, Mikhail Jurowski, Eliahu Inbal, Peter Rundel, Michael Sanderling, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Lothar Zagrosek, Susanna Mälkki and Oliver Knussen.

Also active in chamber music, Oren Shevlin has played with Pinchas Zukerman, Renaud Capucon, Baranabás Kelemen, Elsbeth Moser, Fazil Say, Christian Gerhaer, Wolfram Christ, and the Auryn Quartet, and has appeared several times at Wigmore Hall London. Upcoming highlights include solo concerts with the WDR Symphony Orchestra with the Helsinki Philharmonic and Japan Century Symphony Orchestra, Osaka.

Oren Shevlin is a founding member of the concert series "KammerMusikKöln". He plays on an instrument by Matteo Goffriller (1730) and on a rare John Frederick Lott cello (1850).