Gerald Shapiro (composer)
Gerald M. Shapiro (born 1942 in Philadelphia) is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music.[1] He has been a longtime faculty member at Brown University, where he served as Professor of Music and multiple terms as chair of the Department of Music.[2] His compositions span orchestral, chamber, choral, electronic, and interdisciplinary works, and he is recognized as an early pioneer in audience-participation performance and live electronic music.[3]
Education
Shapiro studied first at the Eastman School of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree with distinction in 1964.[4]He continued graduate study at Mills College, where he studied composition with Darius Milhaud and received a Master of Arts in 1967.[5]
His training also included study at the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Morton Subotnick; at the Conservatoire National in Paris with Olivier Messiaen; at the École Normale Supérieure de Musique in Paris with Nadia Boulanger; and at the University of California, Davis, where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen.[1]
His principal composition teachers were Darius Milhaud, Morton Subotnick, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen, and Nadia Boulanger.[6]
Compositions (selective list)
- Antiphonies I, for piano and tape (1965)
- Winter Birch, for interactive audience participation and live electronics (1972)
- The Voice of the Dharma, for a cappella choir (1978)
- Nocturne, for chamber orchestra (1981)
- Phoenix, for vocal quartet and live electronics (1987)
- Trio No. 1, for violin, cello, and piano (1993)
- In Time's Shadow, for orchestra (1994)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1994)
- Epithalamium, for string quartet (1997)
- Mouvements perpetuels, for percussion quartet (1998)
- Trio No. 2, for violin, cello, and piano (2004)
References
- 1 2 "CULTURE DESK. Natural Selections interviews Brown University Professor of Music, Gerald M. Shapiro – Natural Selections". Retrieved 2026-04-27.
- ↑ "A Second Life". OffCenterHarbor.com. 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
- ↑ "A Second Life". OffCenterHarbor.com. 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
- ↑ Carr, Daphne (2004-01-01). "View from Rhode Island: Finding Providence". New Music USA. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
- ↑ "Shapiro, Gerald". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
- ↑ "Gerald Shapiro FROM THE YELLOW CASTLE I . Breath" (PDF). Vasulka.
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