Gerald Shapiro (composer)
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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]
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]
