| Intro | Harpsichordist, pianist and composer |
| Is |
Musician Composer Pianist Harpsichordist |
| From | France |
| Type | Music |
| Gender | female |
Claire Schapira (born 1946) is a French harpsichordist, pianist and composer.
Biography
Claire Schapira studied piano, harpsichord, musical theater and composition, graduating from the Schola Cantorum. She was a resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome and served an internship at Ircam. She received a grant from the French Ministry of Culture in 1985. Her work has been performed internationally.
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)
- Rumeur
- Chant cousu
- La Chaîne
- Regards (National Orchestra of the RAI)
- In pace
- Interjections II (Festival estival 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