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Caroline Adelaide Shaw (born August 1, 1982) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer. [1] She is best known for the a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices, for which she won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music. [2] Shaw received the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Narrow ...
Sep 23, 2022 · Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She works often in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. Caroline is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammy awards, an ...
Jul 6, 2021 · Caroline Shaw Keeps Classical Weird With 'Let The Soil Play Its Simple Part' : Deceptive Cadence The Pulitzer-winning composer began her career with a creative blank check, but she's spent much of ...
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Oct 25, 2022 · 100-word bio (current as of 25 October 2022) Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammy awards, an honorary doctorate from Yale, and a Thomas J. Watson ...
Feb 2, 2021 · W hen Caroline Shaw became, at the age of 30, the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer prize for music, she described herself as “a musician who wrote music” rather than as “a composer ...
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A highly polished and inventive a cappella work uniquely embracing speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects (New Amsterdam Records). Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University, presents the 2013 Music prize to Caroline Shaw. Winning Work. Partita for 8 Voices. By Caroline Shaw.
Feb 7, 2020 · There’s Caroline Shaw the performer: a violinist and vocalist who grew up going to music camp and singing in choirs. There’s also the collaboratively minded composer who, at 30, became the ...
