Six-time ASCAP Award winner Mark Shapiro conducts choruses, orchestras, and opera. Currently in his 35th season as Artistic Director of Cantori New York, Shapiro is also Music Director of The Cecilia Chorus of New York, and served as Music Director of The Prince Edward Island Symphony from 2012 to 2023. Characterizing his leadership as “insightful,” the New York Times has praised his “virtuosity and assurance,” with Opera News hailing his “superb pacing and great confidence.”

In 2023, Shapiro was appointed Principal Conductor of the new Marshall Opera in New York City. Additional opera credits include five productions with Juilliard Vocal Arts and appearances with American Opera Projects, Center for Contemporary Opera, Encompass New Opera, Opera Company of Middlebury, and Underworld Opera, as well as the opera programs of Hofstra, Mannes and Rutgers.

In addition to his albums with Cantori, Shapiro’s recordings include Daron Hagen’s human rights cantata Everyone, Everywhere with The Cecilia Chorus on Naxos, music by Philip Glass with Irish violinist Gregory Harrington and the Janacek Philharmonic, and a forthcoming album of music by Charles Calomiris. Radio appearances have included WQXR, WNYC, Minnesota Public Radio, Sirius, and CBC.

Shapiro has been a teaching artist with the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program and teaches conducting at the Juilliard School (Extension Division), Mannes (The New School), and Teachers College (Columbia), as well as workshops with Athens Philharmonic, Toronto Concert Orchestra, and Fort Greene Orchestra. Teachers College (Columbia). Each summer he directs the conducting program of the European American Musical Alliance in Paris. Shapiro is a member of the Steering Committee of Music and Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Shapiro is represented by Encompass Arts.
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