Claire Schapira Explained

Claire Schapira (born 19 January 1946 in Paris)^[1] is a French harpsichordist, pianist and composer.

He studied piano, harpsichord, musical theater and composition, graduating from the Schola Cantorum de Paris. She was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome and served an internship at Ircam. She received a grant from the French Ministry of Culture in 1985 to write the opera La Partition de sable. Her work has been performed internationally.^[2]

Works

Selected works include:

• La Partition de sable, opera
• Trames
• Vagues
• Ténèbres
• Fragments insolites
• Le Ciel de mes yeux en pleurs
• Acheminement
• Mémorial
• Requiem pour la paix (commissioned by Radio France)
• La Chaîne (1981)
• Chant cousu (1985)
• Rumeur (1986)
• Regards (RAI National Symphony Orchestra)
• In pace
• Interjections II (Festival de Paris)
• Contes (Musica and the Salzburg Festival)
• Hymne à la paix
• Antigone
• Sans craindre le vertige et le vent
• Chants mêlés
• Sysiphe
• Cassandre
• Stabat Mater (with the support of the Beaumarchais Foundation)
• L'Ombre de Cassandre, opera

Notes and References

1. http://www.cdmc.asso.fr/en/ressources/compositeurs/biographies/schapira-claire-1946 "Schapira, Claire (1946)"
2. Book: Overhauser, Catherine. The Musical Woman: An International Perspective. Judith Lang. Zaimont. Judith Lang Zaimont. Gottlieb. Jane. 1984. Greenwood Press. 9780313235870.