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}}

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| occupation = Composer, Singer-songwriter

| years_active = 2018–present

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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 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

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! # !! Title !! Year !! Instrumentation !! Notes

1Emergence2025OrchestraFinalist, ORIENT/OCCIDENT Competition; Special Mention.
2Dragonflies Indoors2025OrchestraFinalist, ORIENT/OCCIDENT Competition; selected for IAWM Annual Concert in Cologne.
3Song of the Adventurer2024Chamber orchestra & childrenComposed for an educational outreach project in the UK.
4The Quiet Before the Storm2024Woodwind quintetPromising Young Talent Prize, Vienna Classical Music Academy International Composition Competition.
5A Quartet for What We Give2023–25String quartetIncludes three movements:

  • I. Devotion
  • II. Distortion
  • III. Demolition.

Devotion won the Festival Best Composer Award at the North London Festival; Distortion was selected for performance by the Roman Quartet as part of the She Lives Composition Master Class in Budapest.

6In Search for Serenity2023Piano trioPerformed by the Salzburg Piano Trio in their Brazil tour and in Tel Aviv.
7Crystalline Metamorphosis2024Violin and pianoComposed at Juilliard Summer Composition Program; premiered at Morse Hall.
8Flourish Regardless2023–24Mixed ensembleWinner, High School category, The Sound Ensemble Composition Competition; performed May 2025 in Seattle.
9Hakara2025Voice, piano, clarinetPremiered at the Purcell School; explores themes of memory and recognition.

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=http://klknewmusic.com/orient-occident-music-composers-competition-2024-10th-edition/|title=ORIENT/OCCIDENT Competition Results}}

{{Cite web|url=https://www.viennaclassicalmusic.org/2024-composition|title=2024 Composition Results}}

{{Cite web|url=https://northlondonfestival.org.uk/2024-final-concert/|title=2024 Final Concert Results}}

{{Cite web|url=https://www.newmusicengine.org/avatars/adi1shapira-gmail-com/index.html|title=Adi Shapiro bio at New Music Engine}}

{{cite web | url=https://www.purcell-school.org/school-for-young-musicians/music/music-departments/composition/ | title=Composition Department }}

{{cite web | url=https://iawm.org/annual-concert-page/ | title=IAWM Annual Concert Page }}

{{Cite web|url=https://www.shelivesmusic.it/composition-master-class.html|title=Composition Master Class - She Lives}}

{{Cite web|url=https://www.shelivesmusic.it/composition-master-class.html|title=Composition Master Class - She Lives|website=She Lives|accessdate=Jun 28, 2025}}

{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9m2ftECuwA|title=פועם בלב: עדי שפירא – בחיפוש אחר שלווה לטריו פסנתר|date=June 20, 2024|via=YouTube}}

https://youtube.com/Juhu2d2i2yY

{{cite web | url=https://www.juilliard.edu/sites/default/files/7.19_summer_composition.pdf | title=Juilliard Summer Composition Program }}

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