Gerald M. Shapiro (born 1942 in Philadelphia) is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music.
in 1967, the University of California, Davis, the San Francisco Tape Music Center, and in Paris at the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique and the École Normale Supérieure de Musique.
His principal composition teachers were Darius Milhaud, Morton Subotnick, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen, and Nadia Boulanger.
From 1967 he taught at Brown University, retiring in 2014 as Professor of Music, Emeritus.
His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Europe, and are recorded on the Naxos and Neuma labels.