ABOUT
ANDREW SHAPIRO is a composer and songwriter blending his two biggest musical influences: Philip Glass minimalism and '80s New Wave and soft rock acts like Pet Shop Boys and The Alan Parsons Project.
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. One of his more popular tracks, Mint Green has over 14 million plays on Pandora.
His stirring and emotional synth-pop debut album, Invisible Days, was chosen as one of the "Top 12" independently produced recordings of 2003 by Performing Songwriter magazine. Shapiro's three solo piano albums were created with Philip Glass producer Michael Riesman.
He has written original music for film and theater projects, and his music has appeared in a wide variety of national and international film and television productions ranging from reality TV to a Clio Award-winning spot for cancer awareness.
Other collaborations include Bash Street Worlds with fantasy author Neil Gaiman, 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, and the Sundance Film Festival Award-winning documentary Watchers of the Sky (dir. Edet Belzberg).
Shapiro has performed throughout America and Europe; highlights include The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), TED, Yale University, The Exit Festival (Serbia), 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.
Watch Andrew Shapiro's TED Talk here.
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