Draft:Adi Shapiro
{{Short description|Israeli-British composer and singer-songwriter}}
{{Draft topics|women|music}}
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{{Short description|Israeli-British composer and singer-songwriter}}
{{Draft topics|women|music}}
{{AfC topic|blp}}
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| image = Adi Shapiro Photo-2025-03-20.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|2006|12}}
| occupation = Composer, Singer-songwriter
| years_active = 2018–present
}}
Adi Shapiro (born December 2006) is an Israeli-British composer and singer-songwriter whose orchestral, chamber, and vocal compositions have been performed internationally and have received multiple awards.
Early life and education
Shapiro studied jazz voice at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance High School (2018–2020, 2022) and composition at the Special Music School in New York (2021). She currently studies composition at the Purcell School in the UK. Her teachers include Daniel Fardon, Simon Speare, Josef Bardanashvili, Whitney George, and Irena Svetova.
Career
In 2024–2025, Shapiro received competitive recognition for her compositions in several open-age international competitions:
- Her orchestral work Dragonflies Indoors was selected for performance at the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Annual Concert in Cologne, Germany, to be performed by the Virago Symphony Orchestra on 25 September 2025.
- Her orchestral works Dragonflies Indoors and Emergence were finalists in the ORIENT/OCCIDENT Music Composers' Competition 2025 (Ukraine), with Emergence receiving a special mention.
- The Quiet Before the Storm (woodwind quintet) was awarded the Promising Young Talent Prize in the Vienna Classical Music Academy International Composition Competition (Austria).
- Flourish Regardless won The Sound Ensemble Composition Competition High School category, performed in Seattle.
- Her string quartet movement Devotion won the Festival Best Composer Award at the North London Festival, a UK youth music competition.
- Distortion was selected for performance by the Roman Quartet as part of the She Lives Composition Master Class in Budapest.
In 2024, her piano trio In Search for Serenity was performed by the Salzburg Piano Trio at their tour in Brazil and at Annette Studio, Tel Aviv, as part of the Poem Balev series. She has also performed as a singer at venues including Wigmore Hall.
Selected works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWouc-qjhXs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wxYGwVi6b0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSuaqDEtP18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WkpxBs6yDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9m2ftECuwA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcWhquKJQ2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1hEpMmw9K4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVe6bCm2Ihc
{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesoundensemble.com/team-4|title=Composition Competition Winner}}
{{cite web | url=https://iawm.org/annual-concert-page/ | title=IAWM Annual Concert Page }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC59JrgckUCQBjZuIUOsoKHg Adi Shapiro YouTube]
- [https://www.instagram.com/adi.m.shapiro/ Adi Shapiro Instagram]
- [https://www.newmusicengine.org/avatars/adi1shapira-gmail-com/index.html Adi Shapiro bio at New Music Engine]
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