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Caroline Shaw

Born: 1st August 1982, Greenville, North Carolina United States

Nationality: American

Caroline Adelaide Shaw is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer. She won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices. Shaw received the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Narrow Sea, and the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for her Rectangles and Circumstance.

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  • Timothy Ridout goes solo

    21st Feb 2025by Katherine Cooper

    The British violist displays a bullet-proof technique and vast tonal palette allied to formidable musical intelligence in a programme of unaccompanied works by Telemann, JS Bach, Britten and Shaw.

  • Dalia Stasevska on her Mixtape

    26th Sep 2024by Katherine Cooper

    The Finnish conductor discusses her first project on Platoon, featuring orchestral music by contemporary composers including Anna Meredith, Caroline Shaw, Noriko Koide and SØS Gunver Ryberg - and explains her mission 'to become the Koussevitzky of my generation'...

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