Claire Schapira
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.[2] Her work has been performed internationally.[3]
Works[edit]
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)[clarification needed]
- Contes (Musica[clarification needed] 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
References[edit]
- ^ "Schapira, Claire (1946)", Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (Cdmc)
- ^ "Claire Schapira (biography, works, resources)" (in French and English). IRCAM.
- ^ Overhauser, Catherine (1984). Zaimont, Judith Lang; Gottlieb, Jane (eds.). The Musical Woman: An International Perspective. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313235870.[page needed]
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