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Ongoing: Andrew Shapiro performs his solo piano music in his weekly appearance at McDonald's, 160 Broadway, New York, NY. Sunday afternoons, 12PM-4PM.

April 2008 Solo Piano Tour --UK & France-- Locations and Dates TBA.

See also: ANDREW SHAPIRO RECENT NEWS

SELECTED PAST EVENTS

(2007) Solo Piano Tour --Poland-- Performances in Poznan, Gdansk, Warsaw & Krakow.

(2007) Andrew Shapiro interviewed by Andrew Andrew on "The Next Hour" on WBAI radio (New York City). The interview is available in the Writings/Readings section of this website.

(2007) "Detectors in the Eyes" featured on Stuart Maconie's nationally broadcast radio program "Freak Zone" on BBC6 Music Radio (UK).

(2006) Andrew Shapiro's CD release QUIET KISSING charts at #22 on UCLA college radio.

(2006) Andrew Shapiro performs solo and with his group Airbox Music at Galapagos Art Space, 70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY. Includes an eclectic mix of short films curated by Shapiro including "Four Simple Rules" by Geoffrey O'Connor.

(2006) Renaisant Arts presents the U.S. premiere of TROUT STANLEY (Off-Broadway). Written by Claudia Dey. Directed by Jen Wineman. Starring Kelly McAndrew, Erika Rolfsrud & Warren Sulatycky. Music by Andrew Shapiro. Performances at The Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street(downtown Manhattan).

PINK JEAN MINT GREEN: Music about Ralph Lauren, Bret Easton Ellis, girls named Lauren, Atlanta and more.

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Andrew Shapiro performs his solo piano music at McDonald's. 160 Broadway (at Liberty Street, downtown NYC) Sundays throughout the year. Noon-4PM. See the video montage of Andrew Shapiro's solo piano performances at McDonald's in San Diego, California (August, 2005)

QUIET KISSING EP Produced by Peter Wu and Andrew Shapiro for Airbox Music. 4 Songs: Detectors in the Eyes | Quiet Kissing | Quick | Quiet Kissing (Solo Piano) Release December, 2006

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ROBIN'S-EGG BLUE: (Internet Single) Coming soon.

ABOUT SILENCE: Theater piece written and directed by Peter S. Petralia about the paranoia, beauty and pain of intimate human relationships. Music composed by Andrew Shapiro. Video by Francisco R. Lopez. Featuring Margie Lempert, Mikeah Jennings and Stephanie Sanditz.

DIGNITY: Film written and directed by Caroline Oliveira about a woman nearing the end of her life coping with unhappiness through a new friendship with a young woman. Music composed by Andrew Shapiro.

Pianist Thorsten Kuhn performs Piano Solo (Etudes) by Andrew Shapiro in a concert at Alte Schmiede Kunstverein in Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2004 and at Akademie der Kuenste in Hamburg, Germany, November 20, 2004.

LOOKING BACK IN_A CITYSCAPE "Documentary Animation" directed by Lori Hammond about a journey through a cityscape reflecting upon how we view ourselves through the places we build and the environments that we inhabit. Music composed by Andrew Shapiro. Looking Back In_A Cityscape was selected to be part of the 2004 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood. September 2004.

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SUBVERSIONS: Vignettes created by Layna Fischer and performed on the subway range from simple pedestrian movements to modern dance, utilizing text and newspapers. The vignette "Zipper Song" composed by Shapiro is a percussion score performed by the actors using jacket zippers as instruments.

PIANO ETUDES were written for choreographer Robert Bettmann and his Washington D.C.-based Blackbird Dance Ensemble (BDE). The Etudes were first performed in 2001 at the Washington Ballet Studios, the American Dance Festival (ADF) and for BDE's Summer 2002 northeast performance tour. Solo performances (without dancers) of the etudes began in 2002. In the liner notes to "Piano Solo (Etudes)" (Airbox 05) Shapiro writes, "While the "etude" is known primarily as music that performers use to develop their technique, for me, these pieces are compositional etudes as well. I have been given the chance to develop my voice away from the studio based electronic music with which I am primarily involved." Two additional Piano Etudes, "Katz Etude" (Commissioned by Conrad Cummings on the occasion of Dr. Robert Katz's 40th birthday) and "Logemann Etude" (Commissioned Benjamin Rosen on the occasion of Jane Logemann's birthday) were composed Summer 2003.

INVISIBLE DAYS EP: Airbox | Blueblack | Richard Serra | Moon's Reflection "...Shapiro blends the minimalist influence of Philip Glass with the moody pop sensibility of '80s New Wave. Using flutes, breathy vocals and pulsating synthesizers, the four tracks on this recording float through a nebulous soundscape singing of love and art." —New Music Box Released Spring 2003, INVISIBLE DAYS EP was named one of the "Top 12" individually produced recordings of the year by Performing Songwriter magazine. Keisha Hutchins, vocals; Andrew Shapiro, synthesizer, vocals; Peter Hess, flute

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