Diana Shapiro

Diana Shapiro was born in Moscow, Russia. At the age of 17 she moved to Israel and started her studies at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy under Prof. Berkovich. At one of her classes in the Academy, she was encouraged by Prof. Alexander Tamir to try playing as a piano duo with Stanislava Varshavski. The collaboration turned to be a real success, bringing them to the top at numerous competitions worldwide, including world’s biggest competition in their field – Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition. At 2005 the duo moved to Boston, where they studied under Prof. Victor Rosenbaum. In 2011 Ms. Shapiro earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Collaborative Piano from UW-Madison, where she studied under Prof. Martha Fischer. Besides being part of the piano duo, Diana Shapiro appeared with multiple leading instrumentalists and singers in Israel, New England and Wisconsin. Dr. Shapiro currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Piano at the Silver Lake College. In 2013 Prof. Diana Shapiro led a departmental effort to establish a new Performance and Pedagogy degree program at the Silver Lake.