Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning musician Carolyn Shaw visits campus April 11-13 for lecture, concert and master class
Renowned musician and composer Caroline Shaw will visit campus April 11-13, 2019, presenting a lecture about her work, a live concert performance, and a master vocal class. The campus community…
Renowned musician and composer Caroline Shaw will visit campus April 11-13, 2019, presenting a lecture about her work, a live concert performance, and a master vocal class. The campus community is invited to take advantage of these appearances, made possible by the Christopher U. Light Lectureship.
Lecture: Thursday, April 11, Weitz Cinema, 5:30 p.m.
Shaw will perform both solo and with members of the Carleton music faculty.
Concert Performance: Friday, April 12, Kracum Performance Hall, 7 p.m.
Shaw will perform both solo and with members of the Carleton music faculty.
Master Class: Saturday, April 13, Kracum Performance Hall, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Carleton student composers will present their original compositions to Shaw, who will offer her feedback and critique.
Shaw is the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition, Partita for 8 Voices, a highly-polished and inventive a cappella work that uniquely embraces speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melody and novel voice effects. Shaw wrote the composition for the Grammy Award-wining vocal project Roomful of Teeth, dedicated to reimagining the expressive potential of the human voice. Shaw is also a performing member of Roomful of Teeth.
Based in New York, Shaw’s career defies categorization—performing around the globe as a violin soloist, chamber musician and vocalist. Recent commissions include works for Carnegie Hall, the Guggenheim Museum, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and for opera legends Anne Sofie von Otter, Dawn Upshaw and Renée Fleming. She also frequently collaborates with Kanye West, coproducing “The Life of Pablo,” and has contributed to records by The National and by Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry.
Shaw also works with the Trinity Wall Street Choir, Alarm Will Sound, Wordless Music, Signal, The Yehudim, Victoire, the Mark Morris Dance Group Ensemble and Opera Cabal. Her music has been performed by So Percussion, ACME, the Brentano Quartet and Roomful of Teeth, and her collaboration with artist Jane Philbrick is part of a permanent landscape installation at Mass MoCA.
Shaw has studied at Rice, Yale and Princeton universities, currently teaches at New York University, and is a creative associate at the Juilliard School. She has held residencies at Dumbarton Oaks, the Banff Centre, Music on Main and the Vail Dance Festival. Shaw has been a Yale Baroque Ensemble Fellow and a Rice University Goliard Fellow. As an undergraduate, she was the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study historical formal gardens and landscape architecture in Europe.
This artistic residency is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of Music and Arts@Carleton, Shaw’s appearance is made possible by the Christopher U. Light Lectureship and the Elizabeth Nason Distinguished Women Visitors Fund. The Christopher U. Light Lectureship in Music was created in 1985 byLight, a member of the Carleton College Class of 1958. Among his many interests, Light is a freelance writer and composer, a record producer and a musician with interests in computers and music.