Alex Shapiro

Alex Shapiro (b. NYC, 1962) has been a familiar face in the Pacific Coast’s new music community, as a composer, activist and event moderator. Published by Activist Music, her works are heard weekly in concerts and broadcasts across the U.S. and abroad, and can be found on the Cambria Master Recordings, Innova, Crystal, Centaur, DC Records and Oehms Classics labels. Her life and music were the subject of the one-hour show American MusicMakers, broadcast in February 2006 on public radio stations across the United States. Educated at The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music as a student of Ursula Mamlok and John Corigliano, Ms. Shapiro has received honors and awards from The American Music Center, ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Mu Phi Epsilon, The California Arts Council and The MacDowell Colony, among others. Alex is the recent President of the Board of Directors of The American Composers Forum of Los Angeles, and has served as an officer on the boards of national music organizations including NACUSA, The College Music Society, and The Society of Composers & Lyricists. She resides on Washington State’s San Juan Island, and when she’s not kayaking or exploring the tide pools, she updates her website, www.alexshapiro.org, with concert information and audio clips of her pieces.