Claire Schapira

Claire Schapira (born 19 January 1946 in Paris) is a French harpsichordist, pianist and composer.

He studied piano, harpsichord, musical theater and composition, graduating from the Schola Cantorum de Paris. She was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome and served an internship at Ircam. She received a grant from the French Ministry of Culture in 1985 to write the opera La Partition de sable. 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)
 * La Chaîne (1981)
 * Chant cousu (1985)
 * Rumeur (1986)
 * Regards (RAI National Symphony Orchestra)
 * In pace
 * Interjections II (Festival 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