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Caroline Shaw<\/a><\/strong> is an American composer, singer and violinist , who, at 30, became the youngest ever musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music (in 2013) for her a cappella piece\u00a0Partita for 8 Voices.<\/em><\/p>\n Shaw was born on 1 August 1982 in Greenville, North Carolina<\/p>\n What isn\u2019t it like?! If there\u2019s one thing you could say about Shaw\u2019s artistic approach is that it\u2019s all-inclusive. Her Pulitzer-prize-winning Partita <\/em>stops at nothing to demonstrate exactly what a mouth and pair of lungs are capable of, with whispers, speech, wordless melodies, sighs, a touch of Inuit throat singing \u2013 and that\u2019s just the start. Over the years she has collaborated with rappers Kanye West<\/a><\/strong> and Nas, soprano Ren\u00e9e Fleming, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, Arcade Fire\u2019s Richard Reed Parry, pianist Jonathan Biss. And she\u2019ll cheerfully take just about anything from any genre that takes her fancy, with bonus sounds from ceramics, plucked piano strings, flowerpots, you name it.<\/p>\n She started playing the violin with the Suzuki method when she was two years old. Her first violin teacher was her mother, who was also a singer. But she was soon tempted by other opportunities for music-making. She joined the choir at her family\u2019s local Episcopal church and started experimenting with composition at summer music camps.<\/p>\n Initially at Houston\u2019s Rice University and the Yale School of Music \u2013 for degrees in violin performance. But she remained passionate about writing music of her own. So, despite having no formal training in composition, she managed to win a fellowship that allowed her to practise writing string quartets in England. Later, on moving to New York, she immersed herself in the\u00a0 world of \u2018indie-classical\u2019, inhabited by the likes of Nico Muhly<\/a><\/strong> and Missy Mazzoli<\/a><\/strong>, whose preference for writing tonal, approachable contemporary classical music, and presenting it with a band-like attitude, chimed with her own. In 2010, she entered Princeton University as a student on the PhD programme in composition.<\/p>\n Roomful of Teeth, S\u014d Percussion, American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), the Mark Morris Dance Group Ensemble, Bretano Quartet and many others. She often sings songs that she has written herself.<\/p>\n Probably with her 2017 album \u2018Narrow Sea\u2019, an exploration of folk songs written for S\u014d Percussion, Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish; and her 2019 album of string quartet pieces, \u2018Orange\u2019, performed by the Attacca Quartet.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Hannah Nepilova Published: Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 12:00 am Who is Caroline Shaw? Caroline Shaw is an American composer, singer and violinist , who, at 30, became the youngest ever musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music (in 2013) for her a cappella piece\u00a0Partita for 8 Voices. 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