SOLO PIANO LIVE

ANDREW SHAPIRO is a composer and songwriter blending his two biggest musical influences: '80s New Wave pop and Philip Glass minimalism.

Shapiro's music is regularly played on worldwide radio, and he has been featured in The New Yorker, ABC News, CNN, The Independent (UK), Gramophone, and WNYC, BBC and KCRW radio. His cinematic, cascading piano track Mint Green has proved wildly popular with over 14 million plays on Pandora Internet radio.

Shapiro's three solo piano albums, Numbers, Colors and People, Intimate Casual and Piano 3, were created with Philip Glass producer Michael Riesman.

Other collaborations include Falls The Shadow with Daniil Simkin (at The Guggenheim Museum’s Works in Process series), Pink Jean Mint Green with Mario McNulty and David Bowie drummer Sterling Campbell, the Sundance Film Festival Award-winning documentary Watchers of the Sky, (dir. Edet Belzberg), the violin sonata The High Line with Gregory Fulkerson, and King Without a Crown with Mark Crozer of The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Shapiro has performed throughout America and Europe; highlights include The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), the Exit Festival (Serbia), TED, Bard College, Joe's Pub, Gracie Mansion, The New Fall Festival (Dusseldorf), Bargemusic and the Wordless Music Series at Le Poisson Rouge, New York. He was also the subject of a profile in The New York Times entitled "Quarter Pounder With Keys," describing his long-standing Sunday solo piano gig at McDonald's in downtown Manhattan from 2004-2013.

Shapiro is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Raised in Larchmont, New York, he now lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with his wife and son.

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

Auditorium Maximum (TEDx Krakow), Krakow, PL
Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Bargemusic, Brooklyn, USA
Café Absynthe, Gdansk, PL
Classical Underground, Los Angeles, USA
DiMenna Center, New York City, USA
Exit Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, PL
Gracie Mansion, New York City, USA
Joe's Pub, New York City, USA
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
Le Poisson Rouge, New York (Wordless Music Series w/ Michael Riesman)
Marvimon Secret Restaurant, Los Angeles, USA
McDonald's, Broadway, New York, NY
McDonald's, Kensington High Street, London, UK
New Fall Festival, Dusseldorf, DE
Oberlin College, OH, USA
Rockwood Music Hall, New York City, USA
Tarmac, Meerhout, BE
Vissi d’Arte, Paris, FR