Violist Rachel Shapiro is most often heard as a member of the world-
touring chamber ensemble Concertante. She has also appeared
regularly with the Daedalus Quartet, Avalon Quartet and Jerusalem
Trio in the United States and Israel and has been a Next Generation
Festival regular, often performing with pianist Awadagin Pratt. Other
festival appearances include The K'far Blum Chamber Music Festival,
The Ravinia Institute for Young Artists, Aspen, Mozarteum Summer
Academy, and IMS Prussia Cove. Ms. Shapiro has created and taught
a music curriculum in public schools, led outreach and master classes,
served as a Teaching Artist for the New York Philharmonic School
Partnership Program and held faculty positions at the Special Music
School (NYC), and Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance.
Through the Accelerated Program for advanced students at New
York's Juilliard School, where her teachers were Toby Appel and Heidi
Castleman, Ms. Shapiro received Bachelors and Masters degrees
in 1999 and 2000. In 2002 she was chosen to work with Tabea
Zimmermann in intensive master classes at The Académie Musicale de
Villecroze. This was followed by a year of study under Ms. Zimmermann
in Berlin, Germany on a Frank Huntington Beebe Grant.
