Michael Shapiro conducts The Chappaqua Orchestra this season in concerts devoted to teenage works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (including excerpts from his first opera) and music of the Yiddish theater.

Michael Shapiro's film scores for a provocative new NBC television crime show will air prime-time nationally in March 2013.   In addition, Michael Shapiro’s variations for solo violin and solo violoncello played by Tim Fain, violin, and Sato Knudsen, violoncello, was issued on Paumanok Records and is now available through cdbaby and on iTunes.

The University of Delaware Chamber Orchestra under the direction of James Allen Anderson is presenting the MidAtlantic premiere of his Frankenstein-The Movie Score this season.  Frankenstein is also being prepared for future productions in Michigan and Massachusetts.

Michael Shapiro is currently working on his Second Symphony and has completed a new piano concerto Archangel commissioned by the celebrated virtuoso Jose Ramos Santana and a consortium of orchestras worldwide which will be premiered in the 2013-14 season by the Traverse Symphony Orchestra, Kevin Rhodes conducting.