Guest Pianist to Present Free Recital, Master Class

Pianist Daniel Shapiro, a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music and a leading interpreter of Schubert, Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven, will present a free guest artist recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at Kemp Recital Hall at Illinois State University. 

One day earlier, at 3 p.m. in Kemp, Shapiro will give a piano master class, also free and open to the public.

Shapiro's program for the Monday recital will include Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79, by Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonata No. 59 in E-flat Major and he will conclude with Franz Schubert's Sonata in B-flat Major.

Shapiro earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the Peabody Conservatory and his bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California.  He has given critically acclaimed recitals and concerto appearances across the United States, in Brazil, Britain, Ireland, Spain and France, and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.  His recent CD of Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations on the Azica label has received enthusiastic reviews.

In May Shapiro toured China, giving a series of master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Beijing Central Music High School.  He has performed extensively with such orchestras as the National Symphony, the Sâo Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of London, the Knoxville Symphony and the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra.  He was a top prize winner of the William Kapell International Piano Competition in 1992 and, a year earlier, won the American Pianists' Association Beethoven Fellowship Award.

Prior to joining the Cleveland Institute of Music piano faculty, Shapiro was on the University of Iowa faculty.