Alex Shapiro

Composer - Slipping, Bioplasm, Music for Two Big Instruments, At the Abyss

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Alex Shapiro has found that international relationships created through the internet, paired with local community involvement, have led to a happy career as one of the Pacific coast's more familiar composers of acoustic and electroacoustic chamber music. Published by Activist Music, Alex's works are heard weekly in concerts and broadcasts across the U.S. and abroad. 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. Alex was educated at The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music as a student of Ursula Mamlok and John Corigliano. Among her honors and awards are those from The American Music Center, ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Mu Phi Epsilon, The California Arts Council and The MacDowell Colony. Alex is the recent President of the Board of Directors of The American Composers Forum of Los Angeles. Alex's volunteer activism also encompasses three terms she served on the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Southern California, including two years Vice President.