Caroline Shaw

Caroline Shaw, composer (New York, NY), is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musician who performs primarily as violinist with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) and as vocalist with Roomful of Teeth. She has also worked with the Trinity Wall Street Choir, Alarm Will Sound, Wordless Music, Ensemble Signal, AXIOM, Yehudim, Victoire, Opera Cabal, Mark Morris Dance Group Ensemble, Hotel Elefant, The Knights, Oracle Hysterical, Red Light New Music, and Yale Baroque Ensemble, and in collaboration with tUnE-yArDs, Glasser, the National, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Stars of the Lid, John Cale, Max Richter, and Steve Reich. Caroline’s original music has been described as “dazzling, emotionally generous” (The New York Times) and “a tour de force of vocal mischief-making” (eMusic). Her works have been performed by Roomful of Teeth, So Percussion, ACME, Brentano Quartet, The Knights, New Morse Code, and others. Caroline has been a Yale Baroque Ensemble fellow and a Rice University Goliard fellow (for fiddling in Sweden), and she was a recipient of the Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study historical formal gardens. She is currently a doctoral fellow at Princeton University.