Caroline Shaw (b.1982)

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. She is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, several GRAMMY Awards, an honorary doctorate from Yale, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.

Recent projects include the score to Fleishman is in Trouble, the score to Josephine Decker’s The Sky Is Everywhere, and music for the National Theatre’s production of The Crucible. Shaw has written over 100 works in the last decade, for Anne Sofie von Otter, Davóne Tines, Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, LA Phil, Philharmonia Baroque, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Aizuri Quartet, The Crossing, Dover Quartet, Calidore Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, Miro Quartet, I Giardini, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Ariadne Greif, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Britt Festival, and the Vail Dance Festival. She has contributed production to albums by Rosalía, Woodkid, and Nas.

Her work as vocalist or composer has appeared in several films, TV series, and podcasts, including The Humans, Bombshell, Yellowjackets, Maid, Dark, Beyonce’s Homecoming, Tár, Dolly Parton’s America, and More Perfect.

www.carolineshaw.com