Mark Shapiro

Nationally recognized conductor Mark Shapiro is one of a handful of artistic leaders in North America to have won a prestigious ASCAP Programming Award five times, achieving the unique distinction of winning such an award with three different ensembles. Shapiro is widely acknowledged as an imaginative, passionate, and humorous interpreter, communicator, teacher, and advocate.

Shapiro works with orchestras and opera companies as well as choruses. He is music director of the Prince Edward Island Symphony and The Cecilia Chorus of New York, artistic director of Cantori New York, and a frequent guest conductor of the Nova Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra in Halifax. He led the Monmouth Civic Chorus for over two decades. Shapiro continues to conduct opera for Juilliard Vocal Arts. Other appearances include American Opera Projects, The Center for Contemporary Opera, the Opera Company of Middlebury, and Underworld Opera.

In demand as a lecturer and commentator, he gives Performance Plus lectures for the Tilles Center on Long Island. Shapiro is associate professor of music at LIU Post and is on the faculties of Mannes College the New School for Music as well as the Juilliard School, where he teaches conducting in the Evening Division. Each summer he directs the conducting program of the European American Musical Alliance in Paris.