TAFTO 2006 Contributor Bio - Alex Shapiro

Alex Shapiro composes acoustic and electroacoustic chamber music that is heard weekly in concerts and broadcasts around the world. Her works appear on many artists’ CDs, including those for the Cambria Master Recordings, Innova Recordings, Capstone, Crystal, Centaur, DC Records, and Oehms Classics labels. Educated at The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music as a student of Ursula Mamlok and John Corigliano, Ms. Shapiro’s honors include those from American Music Center, ASCAP, American Composers Forum, California Arts Council and the MacDowell Colony.

Alex serves as President of the American Composers Forum of Los Angeles and is a familiar event moderator in the new music community, including her interviews of over 70 colleagues as the host of ACF-LA's Composer Salon series, now in its fifth year. When she's not composing she can be found sailing, sea-kayaking or enjoying the tide pools by her home in Malibu, and was recently inspired by all this saltwater joy to create a personal photo-sonic blog titled Notes from the Kelp. After she dries off, Alex procrastinates on her next piece by blogging and by updating her engaging website.