BIO

MilShap Music is managed by Jeffrey Shapiro, a gifted musician with over twenty years of private and classroom teaching experience. As a musician, Jeffrey enjoys playing, teaching and performing a wide variety of music, including classical, funk, synth, pop, jazz, gospel and rock.

With lessons on guitar or bass, he focuses on a flexible learning experience that includes technique, theory and performance. Jeffrey is also a talented transcriber with the ability to figure out songs by ear and notate them in a way that makes them more accessible to students.

Jeffrey began his musical journey as a self-taught guitarist, who discovered his musical ear and passion in high school. Subsequently, he attended Texas Woman’s University where he received a B.A. In Music (2009) and and M.A., emphasis in Pedagogy and Performance (2011).

It is in the music department at TWU that he also met his future wife, Carol Shapiro! There, he studied various musical styles and added music notation and theory to his skills. He was selected to perform for the annual Honor’s Recital every year and graduated Cum Laude with a concentration in Guitar Performance. Since then Jeffrey has continued his education through masterclasses and studying with various artists who inspired him with their abilities and teaching style.

Jeffrey has been honored to collaborate with many musicians and other artists such as:

• Dallas One Voice Choir

• Brookhaven Vocal Jazz Choir

• Carlo Pezzimenti

• Alias Brown

• Rackashack

• Mike 'N' Gary

• TWU Flute Choir

• Under the Deku Tree

• and many other independent artists and groups...