Arie Shapira was born on November
29th, 1943, at kibbutz Afikim, in the Jordan Valley. In 1947
his family moved to Petach Tikva, where he got his first piano
lessons.
Upon completion of his high-school studies he started studying
Philosophy at the University of Tel-Aviv (1962-1965).
In 1963 he began to study Composition at the Academy of Music,
Tel Aviv.
Among his teachers were Oedoen Partos, Mordecai Seter, Arthur
Gelbrun and Abel Ehrlich.
Arie Shapira completed his studies at the Academy of Music in
1968.
In 1986 he received the Prime Minister's Prize for Composition,
and in 1994 he was awarded the Israel Prize for Composition
and Teaching.
Shapira composes symphonic music, chamber music, electronic
music, and music for solo instruments.
From 1995 he is a lecturer at the Department of Music in Haifa
University.
Scholarships, Awards, Grants
1994: Israel Prize for Composition and Teaching (Israel Prize
is the highest award in Israel,
awarded on the Day of Independence by the President of Israel,
the Prime-Minister, the
Minister of Education, the Chief-Justice and the Mayor of
Jerusalem.)
2000: Council for Art and Culture - Commission for writing
a piano concerto
1997: Dunaueschingen Festival - Commission for writing a string-quartet
(Arditty-Quartet)
1996: Tel-Aviv Fund for Arts - A Commission for writing a
chamber composition (Miscellaneous)
1995: Akademie der Kunst, Berlin - A Commission for writing
a piece (Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad)
1986: Prime-Minister Grant for Composition
Entries in Encyclopedia or Dictionaries
Ben-Zeev, N., 'Shapira Arie', in Sparrer, W. (ed.), Komponisten
der Gegenwart, Berlin, 2001, pp. 1-9.
'The Deluge and the Ring', in Index for Censorship, vol. 27,
no. 6 (December),
London 1998.
Cohen, Y., 'Arie Shapira', The Heirs of The Psalmist - Israel's
New Music (A, Bahat, ed.), Am-Oved,
Tel-Aviv, 1990, pp. 344-346, 369, 404.
Fleisher, R., 'Arik Shapira', Twenty Israeli Composers, Wayne
State UP, Detroit, 1997, pp. 181-194.
Hirshberg, Y., 'Shapira Arie' in O. Ahi-Meir & H. Be'er
(eds.), Hundred Years of Hebrew Culture in Eretz-Israel 1900-2000,
Am-Oved, Tel-Aviv, 2000, pp. 377, 442, 450, 455, 483, 507.
Perl, B., 'Arik Shapira: "Off Piano"', in Guide
to the performance of Israeli piano music, M. Boscowitch &
Y. Rosenthal (eds), The Methodical Center for Music, Tel-Aviv,
1988. pp. 241-247
Shaked, Y., 'All or Nothing', in IMI News 1994/2, pp. 2-4,
24-27.
Seter, R., 'Arie Shapira', Hommage to Israeli art Music, State
of Israel Jubilee, 1948-1998, The Council for Culture and
Art, Music Books, Jerusalem, 1998, pp. 50-57.
Seter, R., 'Shapira, Arie', in Sadie, S. (ed.), The New Grove
Doctionary of Music and Musicians, McMillan, London, 2000
(2nd ed.).
See the article "Contemporary
Composer Teaches Contradiction, Rebellion"
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