Brooklyn composer Andrew Shapiro merges his two biggest musical influences: Classical Minimalism and '80s New Wave pop. His music is regularly played on worldwide radio, and he has been featured in The New Yorker, ABC News, CNN, The Independent (UK), Gramophone, WNYC, BBC and KCRW radio, among others.
Performance highlights include The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, TED, The Exit Festival (Serbia), The New Fall Festival (Dusseldorf) and the Wordless Music Series at Le Poisson Rouge, New York. He was also profiled in a New York Times article entitled "Quarter Pounder With Keys," describing his long-standing Sunday solo piano gig at McDonald's fast-food restaurant in downtown Manhattan from 2004-2013.
The place to start with Shapiro’s oeuvre is his 2009 solo piano album Numbers, Colors And People. Recorded in one day at Philip Glass’s studio, it contains the classic tracks Quiet Kissing and Mint Green. Mint Green, a six-minute jewel in its nature is furtive, an arcing, pacey piano solo which rises and falls delicately, its melody slowly emerging from a Debussy-like haze of almost-hesitancy. No matter how many times it’s heard you have to return to its cascading style.
With his 2016 album Pink Jean Mint Green, Shapiro also demonstrated a mastery of contemporary synthpop with a plaintive vocal style and a unique collaboration with English fantasy writer Neil Gaiman.
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