Mark Shapiro, a three-time ASCAP Award winner for Adventurous Programming, enjoys working with orchestras, opera companies, and choruses. He is Artistic Director of Cantori New York and the Monmouth Civic Chorus, and Music Director of the Opera Company of Middlebury. In December he will conduct the Bridgeport Symphony and Metropolitan Opera soprano Harolyn Blackwell. Shapiro’s appearances have included Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, The Actors Studio, Two River Theatre, the Center for Contemporary Opera, American Opera Projects, and PBS, where he was heard conducting the soundtrack for Ric Burns’s special on New York City. Upcoming engagements include Handel’s Saul in the amphitheatre of Vaison-la-Romaine (France) and Ragtime with Cabaret for Life; his recording of Michael Dellaira’s opera Chéri was recently released on Albany Records. Shapiro teaches conducting at Mannes College the New School for Music, and is Assistant Professor of Music at the CW Post Campus of Long Island University. Each summer he directs the Conducting Program at the European American Musical Alliance in Paris.