Andrew Shapiro Digital Media Kit. [Download as PDF (2.3MB)]
Andrew Shapiro's solo piano appearances at McDonald's on Sunday afternoons were recently featured in a Sunday New York Times article entitled "Quarter Pounder With Keys" (May 15, 2005). [Download as PDF]
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Andrew Shapiro's Invisible Days EP was named one of the "Top 12" individually produced recordings of 2003 by Performing Songwriter Magazine.
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SOLO PIANO BY ANDREW SHAPIRO -- FEATURED IN THE 2005 "BEST OF NEW YORK" ISSUE OF THE VILLAGE VOICE
"Best Classical Pianist at a Fast-Food Restaurant "
"In between shouts of "May I help the next customer please?" the Wall Street McDonald's occasionally features the lulling piano of ANDREW SHAPIRO. For over a year now, this one-time Philip Glass intern has entertained curious tourists with his own ambient compositions, played on a small platform over the entrance. He's understandably grateful to move hundreds of his CDs there, and he gets his Value Meals for free." --Jason Gross
INTERVIEWS WITH ANDREW SHAPIRO:
ANDREW SHAPIRO talks about his solo piano music in an interview with Larry Goldstein on WVOX (October 2005).
ANDREW SHAPIRO discusses his background, performing at McDonald's and talks about his group Airbox in an interview with Audra Berryann on WFNP (New Paltz College Radio) (February 2006).
ANDREW SHAPIRO discusses his influences, his solo piano appearances at McDonald's and plays guest DJ in an interview with Andrew Andrew on WBAI Radio, New York, NY (March 2007). [Interview Part One] [Interview Part Two]
"As if patently aware of the gulf between artists who produce music that sounds brainy and artists who produce brainless music that sounds brainy, Shapiro lets in enough of the real world to avoid relegation to the Yanni bin...this isn't straight pop by any stretch of the imagination." —Shmat.com
Click here to read Shmat.com's May 2003 review of Andrew Shapiro's Invisible Days EP.
"...[Invisible Days EP] can best be described as a lush hybrid of the natural and the artificial (vocals an flute along with synthesized saxophones, vibes, harpsichords and basses in addition to a wide variety of other sounds and treatments). After listening one may be able to understand a character that exists just below its surface: the music draws upion and attempts to interpret and interact with the aesthetics of the visual art that inspired iuts creation."
Click here to read Andrew Shapiro's article about Invisible Days EP in Non-Art web magazine.
Shapiro's solo keyboard performances of his piece QUICK were reviewed in 21st Century Music Magazine.
Autographed score of Etude No. 2.
Shapiro occasionally interviews composers he admires for the San Francisco based 21st Century Music Magazine:
with MEREDITH MONK 
with RICHARD EINHORN 
with MICHAEL GORDON (co-founder Bang on a Can)
with MICHAEL RIESMAN (musical director, the Philip Glass Ensemble)
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