Michael Jeffrey Shapiro

March 10, 2024
American Composer

Quick Facts

Michael Jeffrey Shapiro
Date Of Birth Feb 1, 1951(1951-02-01)
Age 73
Country United States
Horoscope Aquarius

Michael Jeffrey Shapiro Biography

Birthday Feb 1
Birth Year 1951
Place Of Birth New York

Michael Jeffrey Shapiro is one of the most popular and richest American composer who was born on February 1, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. As of June 1, 2023, Michael Jeffrey Shapiro has a net worth approximately $5 Million. Shapiro is Laureate Conductor of the Chappaqua Orchestra in New York’s Westchester County, which he conducted for the world premiere of his score for the classic 1931 film Frankenstein (directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff) (which has since its premiere received over fifty productions internationally) as well as for the world premiere of his own orchestral work, Roller Coaster, which received its West Coast premiere under the baton of Marin Alsop in 2010 at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music while Shapiro was a composer in residence. He served for two years as the music consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., where he produced and performed music by a number of composers who were either murdered by the Germans and their collaborators or had survived as refugees from the Third Reich. He has also been the assistant conductor at the Zurich Opera Studio.

Michael Shapiro (born February 1, 1951) is an American composer, conductor, and author.

Shapiro has received awards and grants from Martha Baird Rockefeller Composer’s Assistance, Meet the Composer, the Henry Evans Traveling Fellowship of Columbia University, and the Boris Koutzen Memorial Fund. He has also received the Columbian Award and the Sigma Alpha Iota Composers Competition prize. He is the author of the novel Getting In, and two non-fiction books about Jewish culture and history, Jewish Pride and The Jewish 100, which has been published in British, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Polish, and Romanian editions—in addition to its original American release.

Shapiro’s works, which span across all media, have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, with broadcasts of premieres on National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Israel Broadcasting Authority, SiriusXM Symphony Hall Living American, and WCBS-TV. His music has been characterized in a New York Times review as “possessing a rare melodic gift.” His oeuvre includes more than one hundred works for solo voice, piano, chamber ensembles, chorus, orchestra, as well as for opera, film, and television.

Michael Jeffrey Shapiro Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income American composer
House Living in own house.

Michael Jeffrey Shapiro is one of the richest American composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Jeffrey Shapiro 's net worth $5 Million.

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Ranked on the list of most popular American composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michael Jeffrey Shapiro celebrates birthday on February 1 of every year.

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