1. Caroline Adelaide Shaw was born on August 1,1982 and is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer.
17 Facts About Caroline Shaw
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Caroline Shaw won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices.
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Caroline Adelaide Shaw was born on August 1,1982, in Greenville, North Carolina.
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Caroline Shaw is distantly related through her mother to Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins from then-Siam, who are her great-great-grandfather and great-great-great-uncle.
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At two years old, Caroline Shaw began playing the violin, being initially taught the Suzuki method by her mother Jon, a violinist and singer.
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Caroline Shaw received her Bachelor of Music from Rice University in 2004, and her master's degree from Yale University in 2007.
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Caroline Shaw entered the PhD program in composition in Princeton University in 2010.
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At 30, Caroline Shaw became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Partita for 8 Voices.
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Besides composition, Caroline Shaw is known as a musician appearing in many guises.
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Caroline Shaw's works have been performed by Roomful of Teeth, So Percussion, the Brentano String Quartet, yMusic, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.
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Caroline Shaw has been a Yale Baroque Ensemble fellow and a Rice University Goliard fellow.
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Caroline Shaw was the musician in residence at Dumbarton Oaks during the fall of 2014, and was composer in residence with Music on Main in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada through 2016, and she has said that The Evergreen was inspired by a particular tree in Bluffs Park, Galiano Island.
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Caroline Shaw contributed vocals to a leaked version of "Only One" that appeared on the internet in February 2016.
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Caroline Shaw appeared as herself in season 4 of the Amazon Prime series Mozart in the Jungle, for a story line that involved a main character seeking to premiere her piece "Hi" in a competition for conductors.
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Caroline Shaw composed the music for Josephine Decker's 2018 feature film, Madeline's Madeline.
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In 2018, the BBC with Coretet, The Phillips Collection, the Royal Philharmonic Society and the University of Delaware commissioned Caroline Shaw to write two works, Second Essay: Echo and Third Essay: Ruby.
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Caroline Shaw stated that Echo alluded to the 'echo' function in the PHP programming language, as well as to physical echoes, while Ruby is named for the Ruby programming language as well as for the gemstone.