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The versatile conductor Mark Shapiro is at home with choruses, opera companies, and
orchestras. He has been Artistic Director of Cantori New York and the Monmouth Civic
Chorus in Red Bank, NJ since 1991, and was recently appointed Associate Conductor of the
verismo opera company Teatro Grattacielo. He has had repeat engagements a guest
conductor of the chamber orchestra Nova Sinfonia in Halifax and as cover conductor for
the Bridgeport Symphony. Other instrumental conducting engagements have included the
Cygnus and New York Art Ensembles, Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum in a project
with the Cassatt Quartet, and PBS, where he was heard conducting the soundtrack for Ric
Burns's special about New York. Opera and music theater appearances include American
Opera Projects, the Center for Contemporary Opera, the Banff Centre, Metro Lyric Opera
and the Two River Theatre.
Shapiro is Director of Choral Activities at the CW Post Campus of Long Island University,
and Director of the Conducting Program at the European American Musical Alliance in
Paris. He has been a longtime faculty member at Mannes College The New School for Music,
where he has taught orchestral and choral conducting, conducted opera, and led the Mannes
Chorus, with whom he appeared at the United Nations. At New School University, Shapiro
has collaborated with physics and psychology faculty to present university lectures in
music and science.
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