Adi Shapiro
| Adi Shapiro | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 2006 (age 19) Jerusalem, Israel |
| 💼 Occupation | Composer, singer-songwriter |
| 📆 Years active | 2018–present |
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Adi Shapiro (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.; born December 2006) is an Israeli-British composer and singer-songwriter. She has written classical orchestral, chamber and vocal works, earning awards in international competitions such as Femfestival in Italy and the International Alliance for Women in Music in Germany. She has performed as a vocalist in jazz, classical, choral and pop at venues including Wigmore Hall and Heichal HaTarbut.
Early life and education
Shapiro was born in December 2006 in Jerusalem and grew up in the Judean mountains in a musical family[1]; her mother, Revital Hachamoff, is a concert pianist[2] and her father, Ehud Shapiro, is a scientist.[1]
She studied jazz voice at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance High School between 2018 and 2020 and again in 2022, and composition at the Special Music School in New York in 2021 with Whitney George.[1] Since 2023, she has studied composition at the Purcell School in the UK with Daniel Fardon and Simon Speare, and has also studied with Josef Bardanashvili, Robert Saxton, Silvia Lim, and Irena Svetova.[1] In the summers of 2022 and 2023 she attended the Composition Intensive New England Music Camp, receiving lesson from Nick Dibernardino and others. In the summer 2024, she took part in the Juilliard School's summer composition program, receiving lessons from David Ludwig, Daniel Felsenfeld, Vivian Fung, Amy Beth Kirsten, among others.[3] She has been accepted as a composition student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[1]
Career
Vocalist
As a vocalist, Shpiro has performed jazz, classical, choral, pop, and her own songs. She performed music by Luciano Berio at Wigmore Hall in London and appeared as Belinda in Dido and Aeneas at the Purcell School.[1] As a choir singer, she was a member of the Ankor Choir[4] from 2019, performing in major projects including War Requiem with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yoel Levi, and at venues such as Heichal HaTarbut (Charles Bronfman Auditorium), Smith Square Hall, Southwark Cathedral, and St. Albans Cathedral.[1]
She is the sole jazz singer of the Royal Academy of Music Junior Jazz program for 2024–2025.[1], and has performed jazz at the Yellow Submarine in Jerusalem, at the Royal Academy of Music and the 606 Club in London, and in school concerts in Manhattan.[1] As a pop singer, she has performed at Watford Palace Theatre. As a singer-songwriter, she produced and performed a concert of 10 new original songs at the Piano at Nataf[5] concert hall in summer 2024.[1]
Composer
In 2024 and 2025, Shapiro’s compositions received recognition in several international open-age competitions through anonymous submission processes. Her string quartet movement Devotion won first prize at the 2025 Femfestival in Italy, an international competition for women composers.[6] Her orchestral work Dragonflies Indoors was selected for performance at the International Alliance for Women in Music 2025 Annual Concert in Cologne by the Virago Symphony Orchestra.[7][8]
Both Dragonflies Indoors and her orchestral piece Emergence were finalists in the ORIENT/OCCIDENT Music Composers’ Competition 2025 in Ukraine, with Emergence receiving a special mention.[9] Her woodwind quintet The Quiet Before the Storm received the Promising Young Talent Prize at the Vienna Classical Music Academy International Composition Competition.[10]
Another work, Flourish Regardless, won The Sound Ensemble Composition Competition High School category and was performed in Seattle.[11] Devotion additionally received the Festival Best Composer Award at the 2024 North London Festival, a UK youth music competition.[12]
In 2025, her string quartet movement Distortion was selected for performance by the Roman Quartet at the She Lives Composition Master Class in Budapest.[13][14] The previous year, her piano trio In Search for Serenity was performed by the Salzburg Piano Trio during their Brazil tour and in Tel Aviv as part of the Poem Balev series.[15]
Her works have been performed internationally by orchestras and ensembles including the KLK Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine)[9], Salzburg Piano Trio (Brazil and Israel), Purcell School Orchestra (UK), Israeli Chamber Quintet (Israel), Sound Ensemble (Seattle)[11], Juilliard alumni (NYC), and New England Music Camp faculty (Maine). Commissions include pieces for the Salzburg Piano Trio, Constanze Quartet, Salzburg Chamber Soloists Orchestra, Israeli Chamber Quintet, and the Purcell School Orchestra. Additional performances are expected in 2025 by the Roman Quartet (Budapest)[13], the Virago orchestra (Cologne)[7], and as part of the Femfest 2025 Festival (Florence).[6][1]
Selected works
Note: Titles link to performance videos where available.
| # | Title | Year | Instrumentation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dragonflies Indoors | 2025 | Orchestra | Finalist, ORIENT/OCCIDENT open-age Competition; selected[8] for IAWM Annual Concert in Cologne.[7] |
| 2 | Emergence | 2025 | Orchestra | Finalist, ORIENT/OCCIDENT open-age Competition; Special Mention.[9] |
| 3 | Flourish Regardless | 2023–24 | Mixed ensemble | Winner, High School category, The Sound Ensemble Composition Competition; performed May 2025 in Seattle.[11] |
| 4 | The Quiet Before the Storm | 2024 | Woodwind quintet | Promising Young Talent Prize, Vienna Classical Music Academy International Composition Competition (open-age).[10] |
| 5 | A Quartet for What We Give | 2023–25 | String quartet | Includes three movements: |
| 6 | In Search for Serenity | 2023 | Piano trio | Performed by the Salzburg Piano Trio in their Brazil tour and in Tel Aviv.[15] |
| 7 | Crystalline Metamorphosis | 2024 | Violin and piano | Premiered at the Juilliard Summer Composition Program, Morse Hall.[3] |
| 8 | Song of the Adventurer | 2024 | Chamber orchestra & children | Composed for an educational outreach project in the UK. |
| 9 | Hakara | 2025 | Voice, piano, clarinet | Script error: The function "langx" does not exist., premiered at the Purcell School; explores themes of memory and recognition. |
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 "Adi Shapiro Bio". New Music Engine. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
- ↑ "Revital Hachamoff at JAMD". 13 February 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Juilliard Summer Composition Program" (PDF). Juilliard School. 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ↑ "The Ankor Choir". Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
- ↑ "Piano at Nataf". Piano at Nataf. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Adi Shapiro is the Winner of the Fourth Edition of the Femfestival 2025". AMAT Lab. 23 June 2025. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "IAWM Annual Concert 2025 Call for Scores". International Alliance for Women in Music. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "IAWM Annual Concert Call Winners 2025". IAWM. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Orient/Occident Competition Results". KLK New Music. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "2024 Composition Results". Vienna Classical Music Academy. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Composition Competition". The Sound Ensemble. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "2024 Final Concert – North London Festival of Music, Speech & Drama". North London Festival. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "Composition Master Class – She Lives". She Lives. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Roman Quartet". She Lives. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "פועם בלב: עדי שפירא – בחיפוש אחר שלווה לטריו פסנתר". YouTube (in עברית). Studio Annette. 20 June 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
External links
- Adi Shapiro YouTube
- Adi Shapiro Instagram
- Adi Shapiro bio at New Music Engine
- Playlist of 10 original songs performed at Piano at Nataf
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