Gerald M. Shapiro (born 1942 in

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) is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music. Shapiro studied first at the

Eastman School of Music The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York. It was established in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman. It offers Bachelor of Music (B.M ...

, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree with distinction in 1964. He then did graduate work at

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, where he received an M.A. in 1967, the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

, the San Francisco Tape Music Center, and in Paris at the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique and the École Normale Supérieure de Musique. His principal composition teachers were

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, and

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. From a ...

. Since 1967 he has taught at

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, where he is currently Professor of Music. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Europe, and are recorded on the Naxos and Neuma labels.

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)

External links

Composer's Brown University webpage
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