"...Alex Shapiro is a name people should know, she's got it all. She is, in a word, a serious and significant composer
of beautiful music. Hats off!"
Music & Vision Magazine
"[Shapiro's music is] enough to give one hope for the contemporary music scene." All Music Guide |
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Available now! Notes from the Kelp. |
The response to this CD has been terrific. Read the review All Music Guide gave it: |
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| Internet networking sites have brought many wonderful collaborations and commissions to Alex's virtual doorstep. Enjoy watching one of her MySpace friends, artist Simon Kenevan, make a pastel study for his painting 'Afternoon Sun,' to her Phos Hilaron: |
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| Read Kyle Gann's profile on Alex and the music of Notes from the Kelp, for his American Composer series in the May/June 2008 issue of Chamber Music magazine |
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| Tune in for Composing Thoughts on WITF-FM, to stream a very animated interview Alex gave with very animated host John Clare. |
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| Enjoy virtual visits with Alex in the online magazine Tokafi, where her March 2008 (1.) interview ranges from the serious to the silly, and her August 2006 interview (2,) exposes her typically direct opinions on life and music |
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| Listen to Alex discuss her new CD, Notes form the Kelp, as a featured artist on the ASCAP Audio Portraits interview series. |
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| See Alex's latest essays about the nonmusical concepts behind a very musical career (1.), and about how composers can create income from their web presence (2.!), in the online magazine NewMusicBox |
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| Look at the one-page Q & A with Alex in the July 2008 issue of Vegetarian Times magazine |
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| Hear Alex Shapiro's live interview about composers and society, in Philip Blackburn's podcast series for the American Composers Forum, Measure for Measure. Here's Part 1 & Part 2. | ||
| Experience Alex's irreverent sense of humor in her essay that debunks the myths of symphonic concerts. |
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| 2009 | ||
| Mar 6 | Homecoming (concert wind band) Tacoma, Washington | |
| Mar 7 | Below (contrabass flute and electronics) Melbourne, Australia | |
| Mar 8 | Shiny Kiss (solo flute) Los Angeles, California | |
| Mar 9 | Water Voyage (clarinet duet with electronics) Manchester, England | |
| Mar 11 | Water Voyage (clarinet duet with electronics) Scarborough, England | |
| Mar 12 | Luvina (solo piano) Belo Horizonte, Brazil | |
| Mar 15 | Deep (contrabassoon and electronics) Evanston, Illinois | |
| Mar 16 | Luvina (solo piano) Belo Horizonte, Brazil | |
| Mar 17 | Water Voyage (clarinet duet with electronics) London, England | |
| Mar 21 | Below (contrabass flute and electronics) Fullerton, California | |
| Apr 2 | Below (contrabass flute and electronics) Melbourne, Australia | |
| Apr 3 | At the Abyss (piano, mallets, percussion) Saint Paul, Minnesota | |
| Apr 4 | At the Abyss (piano, mallets, percussion) Saint Paul, Minnesota | |
| Apr 7 | Water Voyage (clarinet duet with electronics) Atlanta, Georgia | |
| Apr 9 | At the Abyss (piano, mallets, percussion) Saint Paul, Minnesota | |
| Apr 10 | At the Abyss (piano, mallets, percussion) Saint Paul, Minnesota | |
| Apr 11 | At the Abyss (piano, mallets, percussion) Saint Paul, Minnesota | |
| Apr 17 | Below (contrabass flute and electronics) Melbourne, Australia | |
| Apr 17 | Flea Circus (clarinet, violin and piano) Seattle, Washington | |
| Apr 22 | Elegy (trumpet, cello and piano) Seattle, Washington | |
| Apr 26 | Homecoming (concert wind band) Wayzata, Minnesota | |
| May 11 | Alex Shapiro Interview (Below; Desert Tide) Second Life Cable Network | |
| May 17 | Evensong Suite (flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano) Leavenworth, Kansas | |
| May 29 | Music for Two Big Instruments (tuba and piano) Los Angeles, California | |
| May 30 | Desert Thoughts (flute, clarinet and piano; premiere) Ridgewood, New Jersey | |
| Jul 21 | Desert Notes (oboe, bassoon and piano) Birmingham, England | |
| Aug 13 | Below (contrabass flute with electronics) New York, New York | |
| Oct 3 | Below (contrabass flute with electronics) Adelaide, Australia | |
| Nov 15 | Double Quintet (str. quartet, db. bass, woodwind quintet; premiere) Chicago, Illinois | |
| For information about performances, visit Concerts |
Some 2009 speaking appearances |
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| May 11: Tired of your first life? Well, the virtual world is a reality for musicians, and Music Academy Online is a big part of the growing trend. Alex will be a guest once again on a Second Life live interview and concert of her music. Tune in at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. You can watch her first appearance here. It's worth having a look, just to see the dress Alex's avatar, Asha, is wearing! | |||
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| January 16, 2009: Alex presented a panel discussion titled, Virtual Becomes Reality: Building Community Through Technology, at the National Conference of Chamber Music America, at the Westin Times Square in New York City, with Kathy Canfield Shepard and Billy Childs, and she served as co-interviewer with Frank J. Oteri of the winners of the ASCAP/CMA Adventurous Programming Awards. | |||
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| April 1, 2009: Alex coached the chamber music ensembles at Cornish College of the Arts, for their performances at the Scores of Sound Festival later in the month. One of the pieces performed was Alex's trio for trumpet, cello and piano titled Elegy. For more info, click here |
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| February 3, 2009: Alex gave a lecture titled Composing a Career at University of California at Santa Barbara. For more info, see this flyer |
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| March 2, 2009: Alex was at the open rehearsal of Homecoming in the afternoon, which was performed by the University of Puget Sound Wind Ensemble on March 6 conducted by Robert Taylor, and gave an informal master class on campus later that evening. For more info, see this flyer |
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| April 25, 2009: Alex was a speaker for the fourth year in a row at the ASCAP EXPO at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood. Click here for more info |
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February 1, 2009: Alex moderated another Composers Salon at Tuttomedia Studios, in Venice, CA. Her guests on Feb. 1 were Stephen Cohn, Milen Kirov, Stephen Paulus and Alan Broadbent. Now in its ninth year, you can read about past guests on this special live series further down the page at Live Events. | ||
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| April 4-5, 2009: Alex conducted workshops and gave consultations in career-building as part of the American Composers Forum seminar series, Making Music Work. | |||
Some 2008 appearances |
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| December 16-20: Alex had a really fun and productive time at the huge Midwest Clinic band and orchestra conference at the Hilton Chicago! | |||
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| November 7: Alex and colleague Michael Rhoades presented an unusual and entertaining concert of their electroacoustic works, on the Sweetwater Electroacoustic Music Concert Series in Sweetwater Sound's stunning new theater. Music, video, and lots of interactive conversation with the audience, made this a very special evening. | |||
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| October 5: Alex led an engaging pre-concert talk with the Seattle Chamber Players prior to their concert at the Orcas Center. For details, click HERE |
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| June 12: Alex represented musicians on a panel for which she was also the moderator, at the enormous National Performing Arts Convention in Denver, CO, at the Colorado Convention Center. Her guests were leaders from the music, theater and dance world, including Rob Capili, Johannes Goebel, Hollis Headrick, and Erin West, discussing creating careers and audiences in the digital world. | |||
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| February 21: Friday Harbor Laboratories hosted a CD Release Party for Alex, and a large crowd turned out to hear about her life in music. Alex talked and played excerpts from Notes from the Kelp and other recent discs, and sales of the CDs benefited one of her favorite causes: the Labs' K-12 Science Outreach Program. Video of the event will be linked here soon. | |||
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| On January 3rd, Alex taped an interview in New York City with violinist and host John Clare, for his WITF-FM radio show Composing Thoughts. The show aired April 27th, and you can hear the results from the combination of great questions, laughter and single malt scotch HERE. | |||
| January 4-7: Alex was an exhibitor at the Chamber Music America Conference at the Westin Times Square in Manhattan, where the entire Activist Music catalog was on display. |
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The best thing about composers' websites is that they're sonic business cards! Here are excerpts from four of Alex Shapiro's pieces.
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Alex's duo for violin and harpsichord, Slip, is a winner of the 2008 International Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Competition. The piece was performed on March 8 at the annual concert sponsored by the Southeast Historical Keyboard Society. An even more raucous version that adds percussion from around the world, titled Slipping, is featured as the first track on Alex's 2007 CD Notes from the Kelp.
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Homecoming premiered March 30, 2008, in Newport News, Virginia, with a second performance at Fort Monroe on May 2. The concert wind band piece was commissioned by the United States Army for its acclaimed TRADOC Band of Fort Monroe, VA., led by Commander and conductor, Major Tod A. Addison. |
Below, Alex's new work for contrabass flute and electronics commissioned by flutist Peter Sheridan, premiered at Flute Fest at the University of Arizona on April 11, 2008. The piece will appear on Sheridan's upcoming CD on Move Records, Below: Music for Low Flutes. |
Good reviews |
The Jan/Feb 2006 issue of the American Record Guide gave a terrific review to Above and Beyond, the new CD from the Los Angeles Flute Quartet, writing, "I am especially taken with the Shapiro "Bioplasm," and the May/June 2006 issue glowingly praises Carolyn Beck's CD, Beck and Call, declaring Deep's "almost gothic lyricism" "a truly unique and original composition for contrabassoon." The March 2006 issue of International Record Review states, "[Beck and Call's] disc opener [of Alex Shapiro's] Of Breath and Touch is delicate and nervous, like a fine race horse...". The May/June issue of Fanfare Magazine calls Alex's work for contrabassoon and electronics, Deep, "...texturally absorbing...", and the May 2006 issue of The Gramophone says of Deep, "The blend of sonorities is ominous and magical." |
Tom Morgan writes for the April 2008 issue of the Percussive Arts Society's magazine, Percussive Notes: "This is not a "percussion" recording, but it is full of wonderful compositions, several of which make prominent use of percussion. This eclectic group of pieces by Alex Shapiro run the gambit from joyful, almost giddy moods to dark, somber colors that remind one of Bartok or possibly Berg... This inspiring recording is great to listen to regardless if one is a percussionist or not. But At the Abyss should be considered by any percussionists looking for great literature to perform." |
Veteran music critic Alan Rich wrote in his Feb. 2005 L. A. Weekly column: "[Alex Shapiro's string quintet, Current Events] deserves circulation... It's music exceptionally well made... I found it most attractive, especially in a long, beautifully unfolding slow movement." In Rich's July 2005 L. A. Weekly column he praises Alex's flute and oboe duet, Re:pair, as "perky and thoroughly delightful." |
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Wonderful artists feature Alex's music on their CDs, and Alex has also been spending a lot of time lately in recording studios, producing a new CD of her electro-acoustic works, titled Alextronica. A new CD titled Notes From the Kelp, comprised of eight of Alex's favorite pieces from her catalog, was released October 2007 on Innova Recordings, and can be downloaded via Snocap, iTunes or eMusic now: |
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Clariphonia: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano |
New American Piano Music: Sonata for Piano |
Music for Hammers & Sticks: At the Abyss |
Californian Concert: For My Father |
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Above and Beyond: Bioplasm |
Beck and Call: Of Breath & Touch Deep |
Solo Rumores Luvina |
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La Discordantia: Slip |
60 x 60 2005: Unhinged |
Jenni Scott: Shiny Kiss |
Trio Chromos: Elegy |
Alextronica: Electro-acoustic Music |
Below: Music for Low Flutes Below |
Inflorescence V: Shiny Kiss |
Garrison Piano Competition Scherzo |
Alex Shapiro: Notes from the Kelp |
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Some CD highlights |
From Mexico: Pianist Ana Cervantes commissioned Alex to compose a short solo piece inspired by the prose of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, and the resulting work, Luvina, appears on the 2007 Quindecim Recordings 186 CD, Solo Rumores. |
From Spain: Alex's trio for trumpet, cello and piano, Elegy, has been recorded in Gran Canaria, Spain, by Trio Chromos: Ismael Betancor, trumpet; Carlos Rivero, cello and José Luis Castillo, all soloists with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria. The CD, titled Trumpet Colors, was released on Crystal Records 766 April 2007. |
From Germany: Pianist Susanne Kessel featured Alex's piece For My Father in her CD, California Concert, released on Oehms Classics. |
From Italy: Alex's comedic duet, Slip, appears on the April 2007 Italian DC Records release titled La Discordantia, recorded in Rome by violinist Antonio D'Andrea and harpsichordist Maria Clotilde Sieni. |
From the U.S.: Los Angeles saxophonist Douglas Masek has recorded Alex's electro-acoustic work Desert Tide for his CD, Saxtronic Soundscape, released June 2007 on Centaur Records 2862 . Masek premiered the piece in September 2005 in Cape Town, South Africa. |
Alex's brief and haunting piece, Unhinged, appears on the 2007 Vox Novus 2-CD release, 60 x 60 2004/2005, from New York City. |
From India: Alex is collaborating with master 32-string veena player Shri. Thakur Chakrapani Singh of Delhi, India, on electro-acoustic pieces that encompass his beautiful ragas. The first of these collaborations, Chakra Suite, was recorded September 2005 and will appear on Alex's upcoming CD, Alextronica. Alex has been invited by The Art and Cultural Trust of India to come to Delhi as their Guest Artist. |
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Your contact information will not be shared with anyone for any reason, even if sharks surround Alex's kayak and demand it. Promise! |
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Alex's life and approach to her music career are the subject of a ten-page article, Compose, Communicate and Connect, for the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music, Spring 2005 issue. The article was reprinted in the autumn 2005 and winter 2006 issues of The American Composers Forum magazine, Sounding Board. To download this article, as well as to enjoy several other print and broadcast interviews, click here |
Alex is an active essayist,
and you can read her musings on
everything from
great maestros
to bighorn sheep
in a collection of pieces
found here |
Want to hear all about the process of writing a concert wind band piece for the U.S. Army? To read Alex's July 2008 cover article about her experience, click here |
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You can read Alex's interview in the March 2008 issue of the online webzine Tokafi |
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Read Alex's chat on the professional
networking website forum,
My Auditions, where she was
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Alex was profiled in the March 2005 |
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Off the cuff and typically direct, Alex challenges some assumptions on provocative issues like gender, race, the media and other timely topics. Oh, and the really pithy stuff, like stealing musical inspiration from your cat. Want to join in the discussions? Click on the icons at right In April 2006 Alex was invited to contribute to a set of guest essays about bringing new listeners to the symphony, on Drew McManus' well-trodden orchestra management blog, Adaptistration. Her essay and many others appear in the new book, Take a Friend to the Orchestra. Read Alex's forthright offering here In January 2006, Alex began a blog titled Notes from the Kelp, her personal commentary from the beach. Pairing her photos and her music in what she calls a pixelsonic experience, Alex invites readers to share the beauty of the environment which inspires her. Visit and drop her a note! |
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Praise from fellow blogerati: "A month or two back, I ran across notes from the kelp, composer Alex Shapiro's blog, because of referrals to me (thank you, Site Meter!). She had a funny and challenging TAFTO Month contribution last week. And today, I listened to some of her music. You should, too; it is extremely beautiful and interesting..." ––from Lisa Hirsch, Iron Tongue of Midnight, 4/21/06 |
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"Listen Up! Don't ask any questions. Simply go to this page, and click on each of the three MP3 excerpts from a composition (a string quintet) titled..., Current Events. It will do wonders for your heart, mind, and soul, and convince those of you who regard the 21st century as a bleak one for worthy new classical music (among whose number I often count myself) that perhaps things are not nearly so bleak as they might at times seem... Needless to say, we're also adding Ms. Shapiro's blog to our exclusive Culture Blogs listing on the sidebar." ––from A.C. Douglas, Sounds & Fury, 4/21/06
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Alex was the Keynote Speaker for the 2006 Society of Composers, Inc. National Student Conference at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, October 13. |
Alex has been featured on panels for all four of the enormous ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPOs, including giving a workshop titled, Your E-Career: No One is Local Anymore, with composer Frank J. Oteri that was moderated by ASCAP's Director of Concert Music, Frances Richard. |
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Alex was Composer-in-Residence and Moderator of the New Music Festival at Santa Clara University with composers Chen Yi and Alvin Singleton, February 2006, at which the Los Angeles Flute Quartet performed Bioplasm. Alex was also one of the featured composers at Voices on the Edge: Women in Electroacoustic Music Festival at Cal State Fullerton with Pamela Z and Chen Yi, March 2006, at which contrabassoonist Carolyn Beck performed Deep. |
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Alex is currently composing a short solo piano work commissioned by German pianist Susanne Kessel for her Kreisleriana 2010 CD and tour that is an homage to Robert Schumann, whose 200th birthday is in 2010. Eight living composers have been asked to compose a piece in response to one of the eight fantasies of Schumann's beloved Op. 16, Kreisleriana. The CD will be recorded September 2009 at Germany's largest radio station, Deutschlandfunk. Alex is also composing an electroacoustic work for Susanne Kessel that will premiere in Boston, MA in 2009. Alex has been commissioned by the Fifth House Ensemble of Chicago for a 10-piece chamber work that will premiere in Chicago on November 15, 2009. The work is a double quintet: string quartet and double bass, plus woodwind quintet. On the heels of Homecoming, Alex has two more concert wind band commissions coming up. News on these will appear here soon. |
Alex recently composed a short string quartet titled Five Squared, that was premiered Jan. 10 2009 in Brasilia, Brazil by Quarteto de Brasilia. She was commissioned by the United States Army to compose a new piece for concert wind band for its acclaimed TRADOC Band of Fort Monroe, VA., led by Commander and conductor, Major Tod A. Addison. The new work, titled Homecoming, premiered March 30, 2008, in Newport News, Virginia. Additional performances include the University of Minnesota Symphonic Wind Band in October 2008, the University of Puget Sound in March 2009, and the Encore Wind Ensemble in April 2009. |
Alex has also just finished Below, a work for contrabass flute and electronics, commissioned by flutist Peter Sheridan for his upcoming CD, Below: Music for Low Flutes, and live performances. She's been working on several other new electro-acoustic pieces, in which an instrumentalist is accompanied by a prerecorded electronic soundscape, that will appear on her upcoming CD, Alextronica. |
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| 2008 Award for Slip International AliČnor Harpsichord Composition Competition |
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2006 Guest Composer and Festival Moderator |
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| 2005 Judge, Contemporary Festival Piano Competition Music Teachers Association of California |
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2005 Subito Award for Music for Two Big Instruments |
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| 2005 Award for Bioplasm Music Teachers National Association |
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| 2004 California MTNA Commissioned Composer Award California Assn. of Professional Music Teachers |
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| 2004 Composer in Residence and Festival Moderator The Walden School |
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| 2004 Panelist The McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship Award |
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| 2003-2004 Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Fellow The MacDowell Colony |
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Alex Shapiro worked steadily for fifteen years in the commercial music world. If you're interested in hearing audio clips from an assortment of her projects, click here |
Alex Shapiro has opened a private teaching studio for those wishing to study composition and/or business skills with her either in person or online. She offers instruction in the myriad of ways to use one's web presence to generate income, as well as specific consultations in music copying, publishing, and other necessary professional skills for today's composers. A familiar guest lecturer at universities and conservatories, Alex is available to speak to composition classes on these and other subjects.
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Alex is a well known face in the new music community, and is frequently called upon to moderate panel discussions, seminars, workshops, concerts and salons, as well as to interview some of the most interesting people working in music today. Below are a few recent events that took place in Los Angeles and elsewhere: |
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Alex moderated the 25th Composer's Salon hosted by The American Composers Forum of Los Angeles. |
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Alex moderated the 24th Composer's Salon hosted by The American Composers Forum of Los Angeles. |
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Alex conducted a workshop at the ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO titled, Your E-Career: No One is Local Anymore, with composer Frank J. Oteri, and moderated by ASCAP's Director of Concert Music, Frances Richard. Alex also appeared on the Career Resources Round Table with Ed Harsh, Frank J. Oteri and Craig Carnahan, to discuss composer advocacy organizations as they had at ASCAP's 2006 EXPO. Moderated by ASCAP's Assistant VP of Concert Music, Cia Toscanini. |
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Alex moderated a Composer to Composer interview with Pulitzer Prize winner Christopher Rouse, whose Requiem premiered March 25th with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Presented by The American Composers Forum of Los Angeles, Alex's previous interviews in this series include those with Steve Reich, Don Davis and Billy Childs. |
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Alex moderated and presented at the 23rd Composer's Salon hosted by
The American Composers Forum of Los Angeles. |
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Alex was the Keynote Speaker and Composer-in-Residence for the Society of Composers, Inc. National Student Conference. |
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At the Chamber Music America Conference, Alex spoke on a panel discussion about the world of blogging, with blogmeisters Drew McManus and Sequenza21's Jerry Bowles. Alex also exhibited her catalog of scores and CDs throughout the three-day event. |
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My compositions are a very personal expression, but I also write to give musicians pieces which they'll really enjoy playing, and to offer audiences music which will speak to them directly and emotionally. As with the sea which surrounds me here on San Juan Island, there's an ebb and flood to this happy relationship. I compose music because I have to, without expectation that others will resonate with it, yet with the hope that many might. My art is a tidepool, inviting others to enter and thrive. Composing is a lot like making love. We're trying to please ourselves. We're hoping to please at least one other person. And, we are in fact, communicating. Passionately. Music is a passionate message to be shared, and I compose to communicate. Ideally, my work will show you not only a glimpse of me, but a reflection of yourself. ________________ |
It's the intimacy of the magic triangle of composer, musicians and audience which draws me to compose so often for small chamber ensembles. In the midst of writing, I love exploring and balancing the voice of each instrument within a group. When I have the opportunity to rehearse one of my pieces with players, it's exciting to be part of the volley of interpretations and personalities. Music lives through the art of others.
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No composer writes in a vacuum; our output is the result of musical history. My own voice is inspired by the chromaticism and angularity of Alban Berg and Anton Webern, the lyricism of Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel and Bill Evans, and the rhythms of Middle Eastern and African cultures. With luck, the notes come out sounding something like... Shapiro. You can listen to brief samples of all my recent pieces on the pages of this website and draw your own opinion. I'm convinced that there has never been a better time to be a composer. There are no longer stylistic boundaries limiting our expression, and thanks to tools such as websites like this, we can share our explorations with the world, regardless of where we choose to live. I get a lot of joy from encouraging my peers to take full advantage of the freedom and power artists now possess. |
So, there's a bit about me and what motivates my work as a composer. If you'd like to read a little more on my thoughts about composers, listeners and life in general, my musings continue here
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