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Alex Shapiro aligns note after note with the hope that a few of them might actually sound good next to each other. She has become one of the Pacific coast's more familiar composers of acoustic and electroacoustic chamber music, and her expressive, dramatic works are performed and broadcast weekly across the U.S. and internationally. Published by Activist Music, Ms. Shapiro's scores are widely distributed, and found in libraries and universities nationwide. Alex's music has been recorded by many artists and is available on over twenty CDs from Cambria Master Recordings, Innova Recordings, Crystal Records, DC Records, Centaur Records, Quindecim Recordings, Move Records, Obst, Oehms Classics and others.

Born in New York City in 1962 and raised in Manhattan, Alex began composing at age nine. She was educated at The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, where she was a composition student of Ursula Mamlok and John Corigliano. Earlier composition studies from age fifteen were with Leo Edwards at Mannes College of Music and with Michael Czajkowski and George Tsontakis at the Aspen Music School. An accomplished pianist, Ms. Shapiro was a student of New York recitalist Marshall Kreisler, and she is an active guitarist as well.

Ms. Shapiro is the recipient of national honors and awards including those from the American Music Center, ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer and Mu Phi Epsilon, and she has been awarded artist fellowships from The California Arts Council and The MacDowell Colony.

An enthusiastic leader in the new music community, Alex is a strong advocate for other artists through her speaking appearances and her published articles. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Music Center, sits on ASCAP's Symphony & Concert Committee, and is the recent President of the Board of Directors of the American Composers Forum of Los Angeles. She is an advisor for The MacDowell Colony, and has served as an officer on the boards of national music organizations including NACUSA, The College Music Society, and The Society of Composers & Lyricists. Her volunteer activism extends beyond the music world, and encompasses three terms she served in the 1990's on the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Southern California, including two years as the 30,000-member affiliate's Vice-president, and to her current activities as a Board member of the University of Washingtonís renowned marine science research facility, the Friday Harbor Laboratories.

Articulate, passionate and entertaining, Ms. Shapiro appears regularly as a speaker at a wide variety of music events, including NARAS' Grammy® in the Schools, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's First Nights series, IAWM's International Congress of Women in Music, the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver, Colorado, and each of ASCAP's I Create Music Expos in Hollywood. Since 2000 Alex has interviewed over 100 composers as the moderator of the popular Los Angeles Composer’s Salon series as well as ACF/LA's Composer to Composer series at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and she is a familiar guest lecturer at many colleges and universities, including being the Keynote speaker at the Society of Composers, Inc. 2006 National Conference. Alex is a speaker for ASCAP's Composer Career Workshop series, and recently testified on a Federal Communications Commission panel hearing in Washington, D.C., about broadband access and digital rights issues.

A longtime resident of Malibu, California, Alex now resides on Washington State's San Juan Island, and when she's not composing she can often be found sea kayaking, or communing with the sea life at the tide pools, evidence of which can be found on her blog, Notes from the Kelp.

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