STAGE AND SCREEN

This season Michael Shapiro celebrates the 50th Anniversary of The Chappaqua Orchestra with a series of celebratory concerts.  These events include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Westchester Concert Singers, the first ever New Castle Community Sing, and the final concert of the season reproducing some of the first works performed by the orchestra in 1959 by Wagner, Debussy, and Ravel as well as Dvorak's New World Symphony and the world premiere of Mr. Shapiro's Roller Coaster for orchestra specially commissioned for the occasion.

In addition to Roller Coaster, Michael Shapiro has completed a set of eighteen variations for solo violin called Peace Variations written for virtuoso violinist Timothy Fain.  Mr. Shapiro is also completing his second violin and piano sonata for Mr. Fain.  The Peace Variations, second violin and piano sonata, Yiddish Quartet, and Piano Quintet are scheduled to be recorded for Albany Records next season by Mr. Fain, the Hawthorne String Quartet, and the Locrian Chamber Players. 

Michael Shapiro is currently scoring a new series which will air next season on national television.