Versatile conductor Mark Shapiro is one of a handful of conductors in North America to have won a prestigious ASCAP Programming Award four times. Shapiro enjoys working with orchestras, opera companies, and choruses. He is music director of the Prince Edward Island Symphony, artistic director of Cantori New York and the Monmouth Civic Chorus, and on the faculties at the CW Post Campus of Long Island University and Mannes College the New School for Music. He served as a Center music panelist in 2010 and a music LOI panelist in 2012.