Six-time ASCAP Award-winner Mark Shapiro is active as a conductor of choruses, orchestras, and opera. He is Artistic Director of Cantori New York, Music Director of The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Principal Conductor of Marshall Opera, and Conductor Emeritus of The Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra, which he served as Music Director for a decade. Characterizing his leadership as “insightful,” The New York Times has praised his “virtuosity and assurance”; Opera News has noted his “superb pacing and great confidence.” Favorite venues include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Le Poisson Rouge, the Guggenheim and Rubin Museums, Charlottetown’s Confederation Centre of the Arts, and the amphitheater at Vaison-la-Romaine, France.

Opera credits include five productions with Juilliard Vocal Arts and appearances with American Opera Projects, Center for Contemporary Opera, Encompass New Opera, Opera Company of Middlebury, and Underworld Opera, as well as the opera programs of Hofstra and Rutgers. Stage directors include Ed Berkeley, Mary Birnbaum, John Giampietro, Louisa Muller, and Emma Griffin.

Shapiro and Cantori have recorded for Albany, Arsis, Newport Classics, and PGM. Their recording of Frank Martin’s oratorio Le vin herbé was an Opera News Editor’s Choice. His album of music by Philip Glass with Irish violinist Gregory Harrington and Shapiro conducting the Janacek Philharmonic was released in 2020, reaching the Billboards Classical Chart twice. Radio appearances have included WQXR, WNYC, Minnesota Public Radio, and Sirius.

Shapiro has been a teaching artist with the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program and teaches conducting at the Juilliard School (Extension Division), Mannes (The New School), and Teachers College (Columbia). Each summer he directs the conducting program of the European American Musical Alliance in Paris.

Shapiro is represented by Athlone Artists.
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