Claire Schapira is a French

French people

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 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

Rome

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 and served an internship at Ircam

IRCAM

IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

. 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

External links

• Official site