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Described as “…embracing the unknown” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, the music of composer Daniel Shapiro (b. 1985) has been performed by leading ensembles and soloists including the American Brass Quintet, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, the Yale Contemporary Ensemble, Grammy Award-winning soprano Susan Narucki, and in particular the Network for New Music, which premiered three chamber works in the past three seasons: Rosetta Stone, commissioned by the NNM Poetry Project; Eight Miniatures for Piano Trio, commissioned by NNM, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, and the American Composers Forum in honor of Krzysztof Penderecki’s 75th birthday; and most recently, The Monogamous Man, a joint commission from NNM and the American Philosophical Society for the 2010 “Dialogues with Darwin” Poetry Project.
The 2009-10 season features international and US premieres of several significant commissions: Plain-Chant sur L’Ocean, for harpist Coline-Marie Orliac at Fontainebleau Château, France; A Crude Suite, for the Contemporaneous ensemble; The Orchid Garden , for the Lyra Society; and his Sonata for Viola, for violist Hyo-Bi Sim and Curtis-on-Tour, at venues including Lincoln Center and the Ravinia Festival Rising Stars Series.
Shapiro is a recipient of the Theodore Presser Career Grant, of fellowships from the Norfolk Contemporary Music Festival and the Ecole Americain des Beaux-Arts (1st prize, scenographie), and of awards from the Lyra Society, National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts, and SACEM in Paris. He is a member of ASCAP and the American Composers Forum. He resides in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma in Composition at the Curtis Institute of Music, studying with Richard Danielpour, Jennifer Higdon and David Ludwig.