DANIEL SHAPIRO
Daniel
Shapiro continues to gain recognition as a leading interpreter of the music of
Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. He has performed critically acclaimed recitals and concertos across the United
States, as well as in Brazil, Ireland, Spain, France, and at the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw. He has performed with
orchestras including the National Symphony, the Sâo
Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of London Orchestra, the Colorado
National Repertory Orchestra and the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra. At the age of thirty-two, he performed his
first complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle at the University of Iowa over a
four-week period. He continues to
present Beethoven and Schubert cycles.
A
native of southern California, Shapiro began the study of piano at the age of
six. His teachers have included Leon
Fleisher, John Perry, Joanna Graudan, and Reginald
Stewart. He studied at the University of
Southern California and at the Peabody Conservatory, where he received his
doctorate.
Dr.
Shapiro received the top prize in the William Kapell
International Piano Competition, in addition to winning the American Pianists’
Association Beethoven Fellowship Award, the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition,
the Young Musicians’ Foundation Debut Competition, and the International Piano
Recording Competition.
As a
chamber musician, he continues to be highly active. He performs regularly with members of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic in the orchestra’s chamber series, and is currently in the
process of performing the complete Beethoven violin sonatas. He is a member of the Brandeis-Bardin Trio, whose compact disc is released on the Harmonia Mundi label; as well as Duo Hebraique,
whose compact disc
is released on the ASV label. He has
participated at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Ravinia
Festival and the Fellowship Program at Tanglewood,
and was a winner in the Coleman Chamber Music Competition.
As a
conductor, Dr. Shapiro has studied with Daniel Lewis, Victor Yampolsky, Fritz Zweig, Gustav Meier and Sheldon
Morgenstern. He made his conducting
debut at Tanglewood at the age of sixteen, where, two
summers later, he was given a special award for Outstanding Achievement in
Piano, Chamber Music, and Conducting.
Dr.
Shapiro has also had extensive experience as a vocal accompanist and
coach. He studied with Gwendolyn Koldofsky and Natalie Limonick,
and was an opera and art song coach at the University of California at Los
Angeles.
Currently
a professor of piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music, he was previously on
the piano faculty at the University of Iowa.
He has also taught and performed at PianoFest
in the Hamptons and at the Aria International Music Festival.