Claire Schapira


Claire Schapira 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
  • La Chaîne
  • Chant cousu
  • Rumeur
  • Regards
  • In pace
  • Interjections II
  • Contes
  • Hymne à la paix
  • Antigone
  • Sans craindre le vertige et le vent'
  • Chants mêlés
  • Sysiphe
  • Cassandre
  • Stabat Mater
  • L'Ombre de Cassandre, opera